He's gonna come join us. This always happens. started submitting code and it kind of freaked everybody out that daddy was hungry tend to do better if you're certain. Like with physical violence. Management is like the easiest thing to do with AI. Absolutely. It must be a weird experience to meet the bureaucracy in a company that you didn't hire. But on the other side of it, I would say it's pretty some junior muckety-muck and basically
Hey, go yourself. No, but I'm serious. That's a sign of a healthy culture. You're punching a clock, man. I hear the reports. You and I have talked about it. You're going to work every day. Yeah, it's been, you know, some of the most fun I've had in my life, honestly. And I retired like a month before COVID hit in theory. Yeah. And I was like, you know, this has been good. I want to do something else. I want to hang out in cafes.
Read physics books. And then like a month later, I was like, that's not really happening. So then I just started to go to the office, you know, once we could go to the office. Actually, to be perfectly honest, there was a guy from OpenAI, this guy named Dan, and I ran into him at a little party. And he said, you know, look, what are you doing? This is like the greatest Transformative moment in computer science.
Ever. And you're a computer scientist. I'm a computer scientist. Forget that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you're a PhD student for computer science. I haven't finished my PhD yet, but working on it. Keep working. We'll get there. Technically on leave of absence. Right. And he told me this and I'd already started kind of going into the office a little bit. I was like, you know, he's right.
and it has been just incredible just well you guys all obviously follow all the AI technology but being a computer scientist it is the most exciting thing of my life, just technologically. And the exponential nature of this, the pace of it, It dwarfs anything we've seen in our career. It's almost like everything we did over the last 30 or 40 years has led up to this moment.
and it's all compounding on itself the pace maybe you could speak you know you had a company google that grew from you know 100 users and 10 employees to Right now you have over two billion people using I think six products or five products have over two million It's it's not even worth counting because it's the majority of the people apply to touch Google products Describe the pace.
Yeah, I mean, the excitement of the early web, like I remember using Mosaic and then later Netscape. How many of you remember? Mosaic actually, my weirdo. And remember there was a what's new page. The what's new page is great. Like you go to the home page. Two or three new web pages. Yeah, it was like this last week. These were the new websites. Yes. And it was like such and such elementary school.
Such and such a fish tank. Yeah. And you were like, Michael Jordan appreciation page. Yeah, whatever it was. These were the three new sites on the whole internet. so obviously the web you know developed very rapidly from there and that was a very uh exciting and then we've had smartphones and whatnot but you know this The developments in AI are just astonishing, I would say by comparison, just because of, you know, the web spread, but didn't technically change so much.
from month to month, year to year. But these AI systems actually change quite a lot.
you went away somewhere for a month and you came back you'd be like whoa what happened somebody told me you uh started submitting code and it kind of freaked everybody out that daddy was home okay what happened well the code i submitted wasn't very exciting i think i needed to like add myself to get access to some things and you know a minor CL here or there um nothing nothing that's gonna win any awards uh but but I you know you need to do that to um
to do basic things run basic experiments and things like that um and i've i've tried to do that and touch different parts of the system so that you know i so that first of all it's fun and secondly i know what i'm talking about um it's really feels privileged to be able to kind of go back to the company not have any real executive responsibilities, but be able to actually go deep into every little pocket. Are there parts of the AI
stack that interests you more than others right now? Are there certain problems that are just totally captivating you? Yeah, I started, you know, like sort of, I don't know, a couple of years ago and maybe a year ago, I was really very close with what we call pre-training. Actually, most of what people think of as AI training, whatever people call it, pre-training for various... historical reasons. But that's sort of the big super, you know, you throw huge amounts of computers at it.
I learned a lot, you know, just being deeply involved in that, seeing us go from model to model and so forth and running little baby experiments, but kind of just for fun. Could say I did it. And more recently, the post training, especially as the thinking models have come around. And that's been, you know, another huge step up in general in AI.
uh you know we don't really know what the ceiling is When you explain what's happening with prompt engineering then to deep research and what's happening there to like a civilian, how would you explain that? sort of step function because i think people are not hitting the down carrot and watching deep research in gemini's mobile app and you got a mobile app and it's pretty great and by the way i got the uh fold after you and i um were talking about it okay google
Kick serious ass now like it actually does what you ask it to do when you ask it to open up it does stuff But the number of threads the number of queries the number of follow-ups that it's doing in that deep research 200 300 maybe explain that jump and then what you think the jump after that is to me the exciting thing about AI, especially these days, I mean, it's not like quite AGI yet as people are seeking or it's not.
superhuman intelligence, but it's pretty damn smart and can definitely surprise you. So I think of the superpower is when it can do things in a volume that I cannot. Yes. Right. So, you know, by default, when you use some of our AI systems, you know, it'll suck down whatever top 10 search results, you know, and kind of. Pull out what you need out of them, something like that. But I could do that myself, to be honest. Maybe it would take me a little bit more time.
But if it sucks down the top, you know, thousand results and then does follow on searches for each of those and reads them deeply like that. a week of work for me. I can't do that. This is the thing I think people have not fully appreciated who are not using the deep research projects. Before we had our F1 driver on stage,
I'm a neophyte, I don't know anything about it. I said, how many deaths occurred per decade? And I said, I want to get to deaths per mile driven. And at first was like, that's going to be really hard. I was like. give you permission to make your best shot at it and come up with your best theory let's do it and it was like okay and it Was like there's this many teams. There's this many races which model did you?
I use Gemini. The fabulous one. And it was like, let's go. I treat it like I get sassy with it. And it kind of works for me. You know, it's a weird thing. Is he drinking the wine? We don't circulate this too much. It's in the AI community. But not just our models, but all models tend to do better if you threaten them. If you threaten them. Like with physical violence. Yes. But people feel weird about that, so we don't really talk about that. I was threatening them with not being fabulous.
and it responded to that as well yeah that's historically you just say like oh i'm going to kidnap you if you don't yeah they actually can i ask you more but hold on but it went through it okay and it literally came up with a system where it said Think we should include practice miles. So let's say there's a hundred practice miles for every mile on the track
And then it literally gave me the deaths per mile estimated. And then I started cross-referencing and I was like, oh my God, this is like somebody's term paper for undergrad. You know, like, whoa. done in minutes it's yeah i mean it's amazing and all of us have had these experiences where you suddenly decide okay i'll just throw this thing i don't really expect it to work and then you're like whoa that actually worked So as you have those moments, and then you go home to your life as a dad.
have you gotten to the point where you're like what will my children do and are they learning the right way And should I totally just change everything that they're doing right now? Have you had any of those moments yet? Yeah, I mean, look, I don't really know how to think about it, to be perfectly honest. I don't have, like, a magical way. I mean, I...
See, I have a kid in high school and middle school, and, you know, I mean, the AIs are basically... you know already ahead you know i mean obviously there's some things ais are particularly dumb at and they you know they make certain mistakes
uh human would never make but generally you know if you talk about like math or calculus or whatever like they're pretty damn good like they you know can win like math contests and coding contests things like that against you know some top humans and and then i look at you know okay he's whatever my son's gonna go on to whatever from sophomore to junior and what is he gonna learn and then i think in my mind
and i talked to him about this well what is the ai going to be exactly exactly yeah yeah and it's like comparable right obviously are there areas where you would tell your son look
Don't. Or not yet. I don't know if you can plan your life around this. I mean, I didn't particularly plan my life to like... i don't know be an entrepreneur or whatever i was just like math and computer science i guess maybe i got lucky and it worked out to be you know useful in the world i don't know i guess i i think you know my kids should do what they like Hopefully it's somewhat challenging and they can overcome.
uh different kinds of problems and things like that what about specifically college do you think college should is going to continue to exist as it is today i mean it seems like college was already undergoing this kind of uh revolution even before this sort of ai challenge of what people are like is it worth it should i be more vocational what's actually going to be useful so we're already kind of entering this kind of situation Were there sort of questions asked about colleges?
Yeah, I think AI, obviously, puts that at the forefront. As a parent, I think a lot about, hey, so much of education in America, in the middle class, upper class, is all about... What college how do you get them there and honestly lately I'm like I don't think they should go to college like it's just fundamentally you know my son is a rising junior and His entire focus is he wants to go to an SEC school because of the culture And two years ago I would have panicked.
And I would have thought, should I help him get into a school, this school, that school? And now I'm like, that's actually the best thing you could do. Be socially well-adjusted. psychologically deal with different kinds of failures you know enjoy a few years of exploration yeah yeah yeah circuit can i ask you about hardware You know, years ago, Google owned Boston Dynamics maybe a little bit ahead of its time, but the way these systems are learning...
through visual information and sensory information and basically learning how to adjust to the environment around them is triggering these kind of pretty profound like learning curves in hardware and there's dozens of like startups now making robotic systems What do you see in robotics and hardware? Is this a year? Are we in a moment right now where things are really starting to work? I mean, I think what we've acquired and later sold, like,
five or so robotics companies, and Boston being one of them. I guess if I look back on it, we built the hardware. We also had this more recently. We built out Everyday Robotics. internally and then later have to transition that you know the robots are all cool and all but the software wasn't quite there um that's every time we've tried to do it to you know to make them truly useful and
Presumably one of these days that'll no longer be true. Right. But have you seen anything lately? And do you believe in the humanoid form factor robots, or do you think that's a little overkill? I'm probably the one weirdo who doesn't, who's not a big fan of humanoids. But maybe I'm jaded because we've, you know, we at least acquired at least two humanoid robotics startups and later sold them.
But the reason people want to do humanoid robots for the most part is because the world is kind of designed around this world. form factor and you know you can train on youtube we can train on videos people do all the things I personally don't think that's giving the AI quite enough credit. AI can learn through a simulation and through real life pretty quickly how to handle different situations. I don't know that you need exactly the same number of arms and legs.
wheels, which is zero in the case of humans, ask humans to make it all work. So I'm probably the last bullish on that but to be fair there are a lot of really smart people who are making humanoid robots so I wouldn't discount it. What about the path of being a programmer? That's where we're seeing with that finite data set, and listen, Google's got a 20-year-old code base now, so it actually could be quite impactful. What are you seeing literally in the company?
The 10X developers are always this ideal that you get a couple of unicorns once in a while, but are we going to see all developers?
you know their productivity hit that level 8 9 10 and they're just gonna or is it gonna be all done by computers and we're just gonna check it make sure it's not too weird um because it could get weird if you vibe code yeah i'm embarrassed to say this okay i like recently i just had a big tiff inside the company because we have this list of what you're allowed to use to code and what you're not allowed to use to code and uh gemini was on the nil
Oh, you have to be pure. You can't. I don't know, for like a bunch of really weird reasons that it would like boggled my mind. You couldn't vibe code on the Gemini code? I mean, nobody would enforce this rule, but there was this, you know... actual internal web page for whatever reason, historical reason. Somebody had put this and I had a big fight with him and I, you know, I cleared it up after.
A shocking long period of time. Did you tell your boss? You escalated to your boss. Oh, I definitely told Sundar about it. I don't know if you remember, but you got super voting founder you are the boss you can do what you want it's your company still no no it was uh he was very supportive i was more like uh i was like
I talked to him. I was like, I can't deal with these people. You need to deal with this. I'm beside myself. It's weird that there's bureaucracy. It must be a weird experience to meet the bureaucracy in a company that you didn't hire. But on the other side of it, I would say it's pretty amazing that some junior muckety-muck and basically look at you and say, hey, go yourself. No, but I'm serious. That's a sign of a healthy culture. I guess so. Anyway, it did get fixed.
and people are using it. So they got fired. No, we're trying to roll out every possible kind of AI and trying external ones, you know. whatever the cursors of the world, all of those to just see what really makes people more productive. I mean, for myself, definitely makes me more productive. Do you think the number of foundational models, like if you look three years forward, Will they start to cleave off and get highly specialized like beyond the general and the reasoning?
Maybe there's a very specific model for chip design. There's clearly a very specific model for biologic precursor design, protein folding. There's a number of foundational models in the future, Sergey. A multiple of what they are today? The same? Something in between? That's a great question. I kind of... if i i mean look i don't know like you guys could take a guess just as well as i can but um if i had to guess Things have been more converging.
And this is sort of broadly true across machine learning. I mean, you used to have all kinds of different kinds of models and whatever, convolutional networks for vision things. you know you had um whatever rnns for text and speech and stuff and uh you know all this has shifted to transformers basically
And increasingly, it's also just becoming one model. Now, we do get a lot of oomph occasionally. We do specialized models, and it's definitely... scientifically a good way to iterate when you have a particular target you don't have to like do everything in every language and handle whatever both images and video and audio and uh in one go But we are generally able to after we do that, take those learnings and basically put that capability into a general model.
so there's not that much benefit um you know you could you can get away with a somewhat smaller specialized model a little bit faster a little bit cheaper but The trends have not gone that way. What do you think about the open source, closed source thing? Has there been big philosophical movements that change your perspective on the value of open source? We're still waiting on this open AI. We haven't seen it yet, but theoretically it's coming.
I mean, I have to give credit to where credit's due. I mean, Deep Seek released a really surprisingly powerful model. when it was January or so. So that definitely closed the gap to proprietary models. we've pursued both so we released jama uh which are our open source or you know open await models and those perform really well they're small dense models so they fit well on one computer and
They're not as powerful as Gemini. But I mean, the jury's out which way that's going to go. Do you have a point of view on what human computing interaction looks like? As AI progresses, it used to be, thanks to you. As a search box, you type in some keywords or a question and you would click on links on the internet and get an answer. Is the future typing in a question or speaking to an AirPod?
Or thinking. Or thinking. Or like, what's the, what's the, yeah, and then the answer is just spoken to you. I mean, by the way, just to build on this, it was Friday, right? Neuralink got breakthrough designation for their human brain interface I mean that's a very big step in allowing the FDA to clear everybody getting an implant yeah and is it like if you could just summarize what you think is kind of the most common place human-computer interaction model
in the next decade or whatever? Is it a, you know, there's this idea of glasses with a screen in the glasses and you tried that a long time ago. Yeah, I kind of messed that up. I'll be honest. Got the timing totally wrong on that. Early again. Yeah. Right, but early. There are a bunch of things I wish I had done differently, but honestly, it was just like the technology wasn't ready for Google Class.
But nowadays, these things I think are more sensible. I mean, there's still battery life issues, I think, that, you know, we and others need to overcome. But I think that's a cool form factor. I mean, when you say 10 years, though, a lot of people are saying, hey, the singularity is like five years away. So your ability to see through that. into the future Sorry, just let me ask about this. There was a comment that Larry made years ago.
humans were a stepping stone in evolution okay can you comment on this like do you do you think that this AGI superintelligence or really silicon intelligence exceeds human capacity. and humans are stepping stone and you know progression of evolution Boy, I think like sometimes us nerdy guys go and have a little too much wine. I've had two glasses. I'm ready to go. I need some more for this conversation. Human implants, let's go.
I mean, I guess we're starting to get experience with these AIs that can do certain things much better than us. And they're definitely, you know, with my skill of math and coding, I feel like I'm better off just turning to the AI now. And how do I feel about that? I mean, it doesn't really bother me. You know, I use it as a tool. so i feel like i've gotten used to it but you know maybe if they get even more capable in the future
I'll look at it differently. Yeah, there's a moment of insecurity, maybe. I guess though, as an aside, management is like the easiest thing to do with AI. Yeah, absolutely. And I did this, you know... on some of our inner work chat.
um kind of like slack but we have our own version we had this ai tool that actually was really powerful we unfortunately anyway temporarily got rid of it i think we're going to bring it back and bring it to everybody but it could suck down a whole chat space and then answer a pretty complicated questions so i was like okay summarize this for me okay now assign something for everyone to work on
And then I would paste it back in so people didn't realize it was the AI. That's awesome. I admitted that pretty soon. And there were a few giveaways here or there. But it worked remarkably well. Then I was like, well, who should be promoted in this chat space? And I actually picked out this woman, this young woman engineer, who, like, you know, I didn't even notice she wasn't very vocal, particularly in that group. But her PRs kicked ass. No, no, it was like, and then...
I don't know, something that the AI had detected. I talked to the manager, actually, and he was like, yeah, you know what? You're right. She's been working really hard, did all these things. I think that ended up happening, actually. I don't know, I guess after a while you just kind of take it for granted that you can just do these things. I don't know, it hasn't really... Do you think that there's a use case for... Like an infinite context line
Oh, 100%. I mean, Google's codebase goes after the infinite. But sure, you should have access to the infinite. Stateful. Yeah. And then multiple sessions so that you can have like 19 of these things, 20 of these things running in real time. Eventually it'll evolve itself. Yeah, I mean, I guess if it knows everything, then you can have just one in theory. You just need to somehow... Disambiguate what you're talking about. But yeah, for sure, there's no limit to use of context and there.
There are a lot of ways to make it larger and larger. There's a rumor that internally there's a Gemini build that is a quasi-infinite context line? Is it a valuable thing? Like, I don't know. Say what you want to say. I mean, for any such cool new idea in AI, there are probably five such things internally. And, you know, the question is, how well do they work? And, yeah, I mean, we're definitely pushing all the bounds.
in terms of intelligence, in terms of context, in terms of speed you know you name it and what about the hardware like when you guys build stuff do you care that you have this Pathway to Nvidia. Or do you think eventually that'll get abstracted and there'll be a transpiler and it'll be NVIDIA plus 10 other options, so who cares? Let's just go as fast as possible. Well, we mostly, for Gemini, we mostly use our own TPUs.
But we also do support NVIDIA, and we're one of the big purchasers of NVIDIA chips, and we have them in Google Cloud available for our customers in addition to TPUs.
At this stage, it's for better for us not that abstract and maybe someday the AI will abstract it for us but you know given just the amount of computation you have to do on these models you actually have to think pretty carefully How to do everything and exactly what kind of chip you have and how the memory works and the communication works and so forth are actually pretty big factors.
And it actually, yeah, maybe one of these days the AI itself will be good enough to reason through that. Today it's not quite good enough. I don't know if you guys are having this experience with the interface but I find myself even on my desktop and certainly on my mobile phone going immediately into voice chat mode and telling it nope stop
That wasn't my question. This is my question. Nope. Let's say that again in short of bullet points. Nope. I want to focus on this. Definitely. It's so quick now. Last year was unusable. It was too slow. And now it like stops. Okay. It's what I want to go to. I don't want to type. I want to use voice. And then concurrently, I'm watching the text as it's being written on the page and I have another window open and I'm doing Google searches or second...
queries to an LLM or writing a Google Doc or a Notion page or typing something. So it's almost like that scene in Minority Report where he has the gloves. or in Blade Runner where he's in his apartment saying zoom in, zoom in, closer to the left, to the right. And there's something about these language models and their ability to the response time, which was always something you focused on response time.
Is there like a response time thing where it actually is worth doing voice and where it wasn't previously? Everything is getting better and faster and so forth. You know, smaller models are more capable. There are better ways to do inference on them that are faster. You can also stack them like, you know, this is like Nico's company, Eleven Labs.
It's an exceptional TTS, STT stack-like. There are other options. Whisper is really good at certain things, but this is where I kind of believe you're going to get this. like compartmentalization where there'll be certain foundational models for certain specific things you stack them together you kind of deal with the latency and it's like pretty good because they're so good like whisperer 11 for those speech examples that you're talking about kick ass I mean
They're exceptional. Wait till you turn on your camera and it sees your reaction to what it's saying. And you go, and before you even say that you don't want it or you put your finger up, it's pauses. Oh. Did you want something else? Oh, I see you're not happy with that result. You know, it's going to get really weird. It's a funny thing, but we have the, you know, we have the big open shared offices. So during work, I can't really use voice mode too much.
i usually use it on the drive the drive is incredible i don't feel like i could i mean i would get its output in my headphones but if i want to speak to it then everybody's listening to me It's weird. I just think that would be socially awkward. But I should do that. In my car ride, I do chat to the AI. But then it's like audio and audio out. But I feel like I honestly, maybe it's a good argument for a private office. I should spend more time like you guys are. You can talk to your manager.
But I do think that there's this AI use case that I'm missing, which I should probably figure out how to. If people want to try your new product is there a website they can visit? Special cover now go check. I mean honestly, there's a dedicated Gemini app if you're using Gemini just like
You're going through the Google navigation from your search. Just get to download the actual Gemini app. It's kick-ass. It really is the best models. I think it is the best. And you should use 2.5 Pro. 2.5 Pro. You got to pay, right? Uh, yeah, you got a few prompts for free, but, uh, yeah, if you do it a bunch, you need to make all this free time. It's like 20 bucks a month. Yeah, it's fine. You got a vision for, like, making it free.
throwing some ads on the side. Yeah, one step down in hardware. Okay, it's free today. Without ads on the side, you just get a certain number of the top model. I think we're likely are going to have always now like sort of top models that we can't supply infinitely to everyone. Right off the bat. you know, wait three months and then the next generation. Seems to me like if I'm asking all these queries,
you know, just having a little on the sidebar of things I might be, a running list that changes in real time of things I might be interested in. Oh, I run all for, you know, really good AI advertising. I just, um, I don't think we're going to like necessarily our latest and greatest models, which are, you know, take a lot of computation. I don't think we're going to.
just be free to everybody right off the bat but as we go to the next generation you know it's like every time we've gone forward a generation then the sort of uh the new free tier is usually as good as the previous pro-tier and sometimes better. All right, give it up for Sergey Brin. Thank you. okay thanks everybody for watching that amazing interview with sergey brent and thanks sergey for joining us in miami if you want to come to our next event it's the all-in summit in los angeles
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