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Sergey Brin, Google Co-Founder | All-In Live from Miami

May 20, 2025 / 33:24

This episode features a conversation with Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, discussing AI advancements, coding, and the future of education.

Brin shares his experiences returning to the tech world after retirement, emphasizing the rapid developments in AI technology and its transformative impact on computer science.

The discussion touches on the evolution of AI training, the importance of prompt engineering, and the implications of AI on education and the workforce.

Brin reflects on the changing landscape of college education, considering whether traditional paths are still relevant in an AI-driven world.

He also addresses the future of human-computer interaction, robotics, and the potential for AI to surpass human capabilities in certain tasks.

TLDR

Sergey Brin discusses AI advancements, coding, education, and the future of human-computer interaction.

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We've got a special guest who's going to come join us. This always happens. Another bread, everybody. Oh my god.
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Somebody told me you uh started submitting code and it kind of freaked everybody out that daddy was hungry. All
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models tend to do better if you threaten them. If you threaten them like with physical violence. Yes. Management is
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like the easiest thing to do with AI. Absolutely. It must be a weird experience to meet the bureaucracy in a
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company that you didn't hire. But on the other side of it, I would say it's pretty amazing that some junior muck
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muck can basically look at you and say, "Hey, go yourself." No, but I'm serious.
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That's a sign of a healthy culture, actually. You're punching a clock, man. I hear the reports. You and I have
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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
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life, honestly. And uh I retired like a month before CO hit in theory. Yeah. And
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I was like, you know, this has been good. I want to do something else. I want to hang out in
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cafes, read physics books. Yeah. And then like a month later, I was like, uh, that's not really happening. So then I
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just started to go to the office, you know, once we could go to the office. And um actually to be perfectly honest,
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there was a guy uh from uh OpenAI, this guy named Dan, and I I ran into him at a
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little party and he said, you know, look what are you doing? This is like the greatest
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transformative moment in computer science ever. Completely like and you're a computer scientist. I'm a computer
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scientist. Forget that. Founder of Google, but you're a PhD student for computer science. I haven't finished my
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PhD yet, but working on it. Keep working. Yeah, we'll get there. Technically on leave of absence, right?
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And uh he he told me this and I'd already started kind of going into the office a little bit and I was like, you
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know, he's right. And uh it has been uh just incredible just well you guys all obviously follow all the AI technology
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but being a computer scientist it is you know the most exciting thing you know of
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my life just technologically and the exponential nature of this the pace of it dwarfs anything we've seen in our
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career it's almost like every thing we did over the last 30 or 40 years has led up to this moment and it's all compound
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pounding on itself. The pace maybe you could speak, you know, you you had a company Google that grew from, you know,
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a 100 users and 10 employees to now you have over two billion people using I think six products or five
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products have over two billion. It's it's not it's not even worth counting because it's the majority of the people
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in the planet touch Google products. Describe the pace. Yeah. I mean the excitement of the early web
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like I remember using Mosaic and then later Netscape. Uh how many of you remember Mosaic actually? Am I a weirdo?
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And you remember there was a what a what's new page? The what's new page is great. Right. Like you go through two or
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three new web pages again. Yeah. It was like in this last week these were the new websites. Yes. And it was like such
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and such elementary school such and such a fish tank. Yeah. And you were like Michael Jordan appreciation page. Yeah.
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Whatever it was, these were the three new sites on the whole internet. So obviously the web you know developed
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very rapidly from there and that was a very uh exciting and then we've had smartphones and whatnot. But you know
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this the developments in AI are just astonishing I would say by comparison uh just because of you know the web spread
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but didn't technically change so much uh from you know month to month year to year but these AI systems actually
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changed quite a lot quite a lot you know the like if you went away somewhere for
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a month and you came back you'd be like whoa what happened somebody told me you uh started submitting code and it kind
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of freaked everybody out that daddy was home. Okay. Daddy need a PR. What happened?
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The code I submitted wasn't very exciting. I think I needed to like add myself to get access to some things and
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you know a minor CL here or there. Um nothing nothing that's going to win any awards. uh but but I you know you need
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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
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touch different parts of the system so that you know I so I first of all it's fun and secondly I know what I'm talking
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about um it's really feels privileged to be able to kind of go back to the company not have any real executive
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responsibilities but be able to actually go deep into every little pocket. Are there parts of the AI stack that
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interest you more than others right now? Are there certain problems that are just
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totally captivating you? Yeah, I started uh you know like sort of um I don't know
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a couple years ago and maybe a year ago uh I was really very close with uh the what we call pre-training. Yeah. Um,
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actually most of what people think of as AI training, whatever people call it, pre-training for various historical
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reasons. Uh, but that's sort of the big super, you know, you throw huge amounts of computers at it. Um, and,
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uh, I I learned a lot, you know, just being deeply involved in that and seeing us go from model to model and so forth
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and running little baby experiments, but uh, kind of just for fun. So I could say
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I did it. Uh and uh more recently the post-training especially as the thinking models have uh come around. Um and
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that's been you know another huge step up in general in AI. So uh you know we don't really know what the ceiling is.
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When you um explain what's happening with prompt engineering then to deep research and what's happening there to
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like a civilian. How would you explain that sort of step function? because I think people are not hitting the down
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carrot and watching deep research in Gemini's mobile app and you got a mobile app and it's pretty great and I by the
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way I got the uh fold after you and I um were talking about it and okay Google kicks Siri's ass now like it actually
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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
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the number of follow-ups that it's doing in that deep research is 200 300 maybe explain that jump and then what you
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think the jump after that is. To me, the exciting thing about AI, especially these days, I mean, it's not like quite
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AGI yet as people are seeking or it's not superhuman intelligence, but it's pretty damn smart and uh can definitely
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surprise you. So, I so I think of the superpower is when it can do things in a volume that I cannot. Yes. Right. So,
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you know, by default when you use some of our AI systems, you know, it'll suck down whatever top 10 search results, you
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know, and kind of pull out what you need out of them, something like that. Um, but I could do that myself to be honest,
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you know, maybe it would take me a little bit more time. But if it sucks down the top, you know, thousand results
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and then does follow on searches for each of those and reads them deeply, like that's, you know, a week of work
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for me. Like I can't do that. This is the thing I think people have not fully appreciated who are not using the deep
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research projects before we had our F1 um driver on stage. I'm a neopight. I don't know anything about it. I said,
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"How many deaths occurred per decade?" And I said, "I want to get to deaths per mile driven it." And at first was like,
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"That's going to be really hard." I was like, "I give you permission to make your best shot at it and come up with
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your best theory. Let's do it." And it was like, "Okay." And it was like there's this many teams, there's this
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many races. Which model did you use it? Uh, no. I'm I use Gemini. Gemini fabulous version, the fabulous one. And
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it was like, but I treat it like I get sassy with it and it kind of works for me. You know, it's a weird thing. It's
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like you drinking the wine. We don't circulate too much in the AI community. Uh, but the not just our models, but all
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models tend to do better if you threaten them. If you threaten them like with physical violence. Yes. But like that's
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people feel weird about that, so we don't really talk about that. Yeah, I was threatened them with not being
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fabulous and it responded to that as well. Yeah, that's historically you just say like, "Oh, I'm going to kidnap you
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if you don't." Yeah, they actually Can I ask you a more specific But hold on. But it
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went through it and it literally came up with a system where it said, "I think we
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should include practice miles." So, let's say there's 100 practice miles for every mile on the track. And then it
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literally gave me the deaths per mile estimated. And then I started cross referencing it and I was like oh my god
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this is like somebody's term paper for undergrad you know like whoa done in in minutes. It's yeah I mean it's amazing
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and all of us have had these experiences where you suddenly decide okay I'll just
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throw this AI I don't really expect it to work and then you're like whoa that actually worked. So, as you as you have
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those moments and then you go home to your just life as a dad, have you gotten to the point where you're like, "What
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will my children do? And are they learning the right way? And should I totally just change everything that
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they're doing right now?" Have you had any of those moments yet? Yeah. I mean, I look, I I don't really know how to
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think about it to be perfectly honest. I don't have like a magical way. I mean I
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see I have a a kid in high school and middle school and you know I mean the AIS are basically you know already ahead
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you know I mean obviously there's some things AIs are particularly dumb at and they you know they make certain mistakes
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a human would never make but generally you know if you talk about like math or calculus or whatever like they're pretty
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damn good like they you know can win like math contests and coding contests things like that against you know some
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top humans and and then I look at you know okay he's whatever my son's going to go on to whatever from sophomore to
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junior and what is he going to learn and then I think in my mind and I talk to him about this well what is the AI going
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to be inact yeah yeah and it's like comparable right obviously are there areas where you
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would tell your son look don't or not not yet I don't know if you can like plan your life around this I mean I
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didn't particularly plan my life to like I don't know be an entrepreneur or whatever. I was just liked math and
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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
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guess I I I think you know my kids should do what they like. Hopefully it's somewhat challenging and they can you
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know overcome uh different kinds of problems and things like that. What about specifically? What about college?
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Do you think college should is going to continue to exist as it is today? I mean
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it seems like college was already undergoing this kind of uh revolution even before this sort of AI challenge of
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people are like is it worth it? Should I be more vocational? What's actually going to be useful? So we're already
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kind of entering this kind of situation uh where there's sort of questions asked
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about colleges. Yeah, I think you know AI obviously puts that at the forefront. As a parent, I think a lot about, hey,
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so much of education in America and the middle class, upper class is all about what college, how do you get them
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there? And honestly, lately, I'm like, I don't think they should go to college. Like, it's just fundamentally, you know,
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my son is a rising junior and his entire focus is he wants to go to an SEC school
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because of the culture. And two years ago, I was I would have panicked and I would have thought,
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should I help him get into a school, this school, that school? And now I'm like, that's actually the best thing you
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could do. Be socially well adjusted, psychologically deal with different kinds of failures, you know, enjoy a few
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years of exploration. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sergey, can I ask you about hardware? You know, years ago, Google owned Boston
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Dynamics, maybe a little bit ahead of its time, but the way these systems are learning through visual information and
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sensory information and basically learning how to adjust to the environment around them is triggering
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these kind of pretty profound like learning curves in hardware and there's dozens of like startups now making
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robotic systems. What do you see in robotics and hardware? Is this a year or are we in a moment right now where
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things are really starting to work? I mean, I think we've uh you know, acquired and later sold like five or so
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robotics companies and uh you know, Boston being one of them. I guess if I look back on it, we built the hardware.
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We also had this more recently we built out u everyday robotics internally and then later had to transition that. You
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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
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it to, you know, to make them truly useful and presumably one of these days that'll
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no longer be true, right? But have you seen anything lately that Yeah. Do and do you believe in the humanoid form
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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
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of humanoids, but maybe I'm jaded because we've, you know, we at least acquired at least two humanoid uh
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robotics startups and later sold them. Um but but the reason is I mean the reason people want to do humanoid robots
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for the most part is because the world is kind of designed around this form factor and you know you can train on
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YouTube, we can train on videos, people do all the things. Um, I personally don't think that's given the AI quite
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enough credit. Like AI can learn, you know, through simulation and through real life pretty quickly how to handle
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different situations. And I don't know that you need exactly the same number of arms and legs and wheels, which is zero
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in the case of humans, as humans to make it all work. And that so I'm I'm probably
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less bullish on that. But to be fair, there are a lot of really smart people who are making humanoid robots. So I
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wouldn't discount it. What about the path of being a programmer? That's where we're seeing with that finite data set.
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And listen, Google's got a 20-y old code base now. So like it actually could be quite impactful. What are you seeing
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like literally in the company? You know, are the 10x developer is always this like ideal that you can, you know, you
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get a couple of unicorns once in a while, but are we going to see like all developers like, you know, their
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productivity hit that level 8 n 10 and they're just going to or is it going to be all done by computers and we're just
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going to check it, make sure it's not too weird. Um, because it could get weird if you vibe code. Yeah, I'm
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embarrassed to say this. Okay. I like recently I just had a big tiff inside the company because we had this list of
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what you're allowed to use to code and what you're not allowed to use to code and the Gemini was on the no list. You
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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
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my mind that you know you couldn't vibe code on the Gemini code. I mean, nobody would like enforce this rule, but um but
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there was this, you know, actual internal web page. For whatever reason, historical reason, somebody had put this
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and I had a big fight with them and I, you know, I cleared it up after a shocking period of time. You escalated
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to your boss. Oh, I I definitely told about it and I Sorry, I don't know if you remember, but you got super voting
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founders. You are the boss. You can do what you want. It's your company still. No, no, it was uh he was very
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supportive. I was more like uh uh I was like I talked to him. I was like I can't
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deal with these people. You need to deal with this. Like I just like I'm beside myself that they're like saying it's
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weird that there's bureaucracy like in a company that you must be a weird experience to meet the bureaucracy in a
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company that you didn't hire. But but on the other side of it I would say it's pretty amazing that some junior mucky
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muck can basically look at you and say hey go yourself. No but I'm serious. That's a sign of a healthy culture
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actually I guess. So anyway, it did get fixed and uh people are using it. So they got fired.
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That person's working in Google Siberia. No, we're trying to, you know, roll out
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every possible kind of AI and and trying external ones, you know, be whatever the
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cursors of the world, all all of those uh to just see what really makes people more productive. Um I mean for myself
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definitely makes me more productive because I'm not do you do you think the number of foundational models like if
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you look three years forward will they start to cleave off and gets highly specialized like beyond the
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general and the reasoning maybe there's a very specific model for chip design there's clearly a very specific model
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for biologic precursor design protein folding like is the number of foundational models in the future Sergey
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a multiple of what they are today the same something in between. That's a great question. I kind
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of if I I mean look I don't know like you guys take a guess just as well as I can but um if I had to
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guess you know things have been more converging uh and uh this is sort of broadly true
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across machine learning I mean you used to have all kinds of different kinds of models and whatever convolutional
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networks for vision things and you know you had um whatever RNN's for text and speech and stuff and uh you know all
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this has shifted to transformers basically uh and uh increasingly it's also just becoming one model um now we
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do get a lot of oomph occasionally we do specialized models uh and it's it's definitely
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scientifically a good way to iterate when you have a particular target you don't have to like do everything in
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every language and handle whatever both images and video and audio and uh in one
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go. Um but we are generally able to after we do that take those learnings and basically put that capability into a
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general model. So there's not that much benefit. Um you know you could you can get away with a somewhat smaller
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specialized model a little bit faster a little bit cheaper but the trends have not gone that way. What do you think
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about the open source closed source thing? Has there been big philosophical movements that change your perspective
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on the value of open source? Um, we're still waiting on this o, you know, open AI. Oh, yeah. Open source drop. I mean,
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we haven't seen it yet, but theoretically it's coming. I mean, have to give credit uh to where credit's due.
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I mean, Deepseek released a really surprisingly powerful model uh when it was January or
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so. So, that that definitely closed the gap to proprietary models. We've pursued
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both. So, we released Gemma uh which are our open- source or you know open models
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and um those perform really well. They're small, dense models, so they fit well on one computer. Um, and
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uh, they're not as powerful as Gemini. Uh, but I mean, the jury's out which way that's going to go. Do you have a point
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of view on what human computing interaction looks like as AI progresses? It used to be, thanks to you, as a
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search box. You type in some keywords or a question and you would click on links
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on the internet and get an answer. Is the future typing in a question or speaking to a AirPod or thinking or
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thinking or like what's the what's the Yeah. And then the answer is just spoken to you. I mean by by the way just to
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build on this it was Friday, right? Neuralink got breakthrough designation for their human brain interface. I mean
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that's a very big step in allowing the FDA to clear everybody getting it implanted. Yeah. Is it like if you could
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just summarize what you think is kind of the most common place human computer interaction model in the next decade or
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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
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ago. Yeah, I kind of messed that up. I'll be honest. Uh got the timing totally wrong on that.
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Early again. Yeah. Uh right. Right. But early. There are a bunch of things I wish I had done differently, but
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honestly it was just like the technology wasn't ready for for Google class. Uh but nowadays these things I think are
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more sensible. I mean there's still battery life issues I think that you know we and others need to overcome. Uh
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but I think that's a cool form factor. I mean when you say 10 years though you know a lot of people are saying hey the
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singularity is like five years away. So your ability to see through that into the future.
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I mean it's very important. But do you have anybody else? Sorry. Just let me ask about this. Do you There was a
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comment that Larry made years ago that humans were a stepping stone in evolution. Okay. Can you comment on
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this? Like do you do you think that this AGI super intelligence or really silicon
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intelligence exceeds human capacity and humans are a stepping stone in you know progression of evolution? Boy, I think
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like sometimes us nerdy guys go and get have a little too much wine. I've had two glasses and um I'm ready to go. I I
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need some more for this conversation. Um human implants. Let's go. I mean, I guess we're starting to get experience
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with these AIs that can do certain things, you know, much better than us. Um, and they're definitely, you know,
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with my skill of math and coding, I feel like I'm better off just turning to the
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AI now. And how do I feel about that? I mean, it doesn't really bother me, you know, I use it as a
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tool. So, I feel like I've gotten used to it, but you know, maybe if they get even more capable in the future,
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um, I'll look at it differently. Yeah, there's a moment of insecurity, maybe. I guess. So, as an aside, management is
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like the easiest thing to do with the AI. Yeah, absolutely. And I did this, you know, uh, at Gemini on some of our,
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you know, work chats, um, kind of like Slack, but we have our own version. We had this AI tool that actually was
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really powerful. We unfortunately anyway temporarily got rid of it. I think we're
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going to bring it back and bring it to everybody. But it it could suck down a whole chat space and then answer pretty
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complicated questions. So I was like, "Okay, summarize this for me." Okay, now assign something for everyone to work on
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and uh and then I would paste it back in so people didn't realize it was the AI.
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I I admitted it pretty soon. Um and there were a few giveaways here or there, but it worked remarkably well.
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And then I was like, well, who should be promoted in this chat space? Uh, and I actually picked out this woman, this
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young woman engineer who like, you know, I didn't even notice she wasn't very vocal uh particularly in that PRs kicked
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ass. No, no, it was like and then uh I don't know something that the AI had detected and I went I talked to the
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manager actually and and he was like, "Yeah, you know what? You're right. Like she's been working really hard all these
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things." Wow. I think that ended up happening actually. Uh so I don't know. I guess after a while
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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
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think that there's a a use case for like an infinite context link? Oh 100%. I mean all of Google's codebase
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goes infinite but sure you should have access infinite. Yeah. Stateful. Yeah. and then multiple sessions so that you
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could have like 19 of these things, 20 of these things running or just evolve itself. Eventually, it'll evolve itself.
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Yeah. I mean, I guess if it knows everything, then you can have just one in theory. You just need to somehow
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disambiguate what you're talking about. Uh but yeah, for sure there's no limit to use of uh context and there, you
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know, there are a lot of ways to make it larger and larger. There's a there's a rumor that internally there's a Gemini
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build that is a quasi infinite context. Is it is it a valuable thing? Like I don't know. Well, you say what you want
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to say, but I mean for any such cool new idea in AI, there are probably five such
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things internally. Um and uh you know the question is how well do they work? And um yeah, I mean we're definitely
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pushing all the bounds um in terms of intelligence, in terms of context, in terms of um speed, you know, you name
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it. And what about the hardware? Like when you guys build stuff, do you care that you have this pathway to Nvidia or
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do you think eventually that'll get abstracted and there'll be a transpiler and it'll be Nvidia plus 10 other
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options, so who cares? Let's just go as fast as possible. Well, we mostly for for Gemini, we mostly use our own TPUs.
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So, um but we also do support um Nvidia and we we're one of the big uh uh purchasers of Nvidia chips and we have
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them in Google Cloud available for our customers uh in addition to TPUs. Um at this stage it's uh for
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better or for worse not that abstract and maybe someday the AI will abstract it for us but you know given just the
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amount of computation you have to do on these models you actually have to think pretty carefully how to do everything
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and exactly what kind of chip you have and how the memory works and the communication works and so forth are
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actually pretty big factors and it actually yeah maybe one of these days the AI itself will be good enough to
00:26:30
reason through that today. It's not quite good enough. I don't know if you guys are having this experience with the
00:26:35
interface, but I find myself even on my desktop and certainly on my mobile phone, going immediately into voice chat
00:26:42
mode and telling it, "Nope, stop." Uh, that wasn't my question. This is my question. Nope. Uh, let's say that again
00:26:48
in shorter bullet points. Nope, I want to focus on this. It's so quick now. Last year was unusable. It was too slow.
00:26:55
And now it like stops. Okay. And then you sell it. I would like It's what I want to go to. I don't want to type. I
00:27:01
want to use voice. And then concurrently, I'm watching the text as it's being written on the page and I
00:27:07
have another window open and I'm doing Google searches or second queries to an LLM or writing a Google doc or a notion
00:27:15
page or typing something. So, it's almost like that scene in um Minority Report where he has the gloves or in
00:27:22
Bladeunner where he's, you know, in his apartment saying, "Zoom in, zoom in." Closer to the left, to the right. And
00:27:27
there's something about these language models and their ability to the response time which was always something you
00:27:33
focused on response time the is there like a response time thing where it actually is worth doing voice and where
00:27:40
it wasn't previously everything is getting better and faster and so forth you know smaller models are more capable
00:27:48
there are better ways to do inference on them that are faster you can also stack
00:27:52
them like you know this is like Nico's company 11 labs it's an exceptional TTS SSD stack like there's I mean there are
00:27:59
other options. Whisper is really good at certain things, but those this is where
00:28:03
I I kind of believe you're going to get this like compartmentalization where there'll be certain foundational models
00:28:10
for certain specific things. You stack them together. You kind of deal with the latency and it's like pretty good
00:28:16
because they're so good. Like Whisper and 11 for those speech examples that you're talking about are
00:28:22
kickass. I mean, they're exceptional. Well, wait till you turn on your camera and it sees your reaction to what it's
00:28:29
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
00:28:34
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
00:28:40
funny thing, but we have the, you know, we have the big open shared offices, so during work, I can't really use voice
00:28:46
mode too much. I usually use it on the drive. The drive is incredible. Yeah. I don't feel like I could. I mean, I would
00:28:53
get its output in my headphones, but if I want to speak to it, then everybody's listening to me. So, it's weird. I just
00:28:59
think that would be socially awkward, but I should I should do that. In my car ride, I do chat to the AI, but then it's
00:29:06
like audio in, audio out. But I feel like I honestly maybe it's a good argument for a private office. I should
00:29:12
spend more time like you guys are. You could talk to your manager. They might get one. I like being out in
00:29:19
the I like with everybody. Uh, but I do think that there's this AI use case that
00:29:25
I'm missing which I should probably figure out how to try more often. If people want to try your new product, is
00:29:32
there a website they can visit or something or special code or go check? I mean, honestly, there's a dedicated
00:29:38
Gemini app. If you're using Gemini, just like you're going through the Google navigation from your search, just get
00:29:43
the download the actual Gemini app. It's kickass. It really is the best models. I
00:29:47
think it is. You should use 2.5 Pro. 2.5 Pro. Pay the It's It's a You got to pay,
00:29:53
right? Uh yeah, you got a few query, you got a few prompts for free, but uh you know, if you do it a bunch, you need to
00:29:59
make all these like 20 bucks a month. You got a vision for like making it free and throwing some ads on the side. Yeah.
00:30:05
One step down in hardware cost, the whole thing will be free. Well, okay. It's free today without ads on the side.
00:30:10
You just got a certain number of the top model. I think we're likely are going to
00:30:13
have always now like sort of top models that we can't supply infinitely to everyone right off the bat. But, you
00:30:21
know, wait 3 months and then the next generation. Seems to me like if I'm asking all these queries, you know, just
00:30:26
having a little on the sidebar of things I might be a running list that changes in real time of things I might be
00:30:32
interested in. All for, you know, really good AI advertising. I just um uh I don't think we're going to like
00:30:39
necessarily our latest and greatest models which are you know take a lot of computation. I don't think we're going
00:30:45
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
00:30:52
we've gone forward a generation then the sort of uh the new free tier is usually
00:30:57
as good as the previous pro tier uh and sometimes better. All right, give it up for Sergey Brit. Thank you.
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Episode Highlights

  • Transformative Moment in AI
    A guest highlights the current era as the most transformative in computer science history.
    “This is like the greatest transformative moment in computer science ever.”
    @ 01m 28s
    May 20, 2025
  • AI's Surprising Capabilities
    Discussion on how AI can exceed expectations and deliver impressive results.
    “AI can definitely surprise you.”
    @ 06m 54s
    May 20, 2025
  • Rethinking College Education
    A parent questions the value of traditional college education in the age of AI.
    “I don't think they should go to college.”
    @ 11m 52s
    May 20, 2025
  • Healthy Workplace Culture
    A conversation about the importance of a culture where employees can speak freely.
    “That's a sign of a healthy culture, actually.”
    @ 16m 36s
    May 20, 2025
  • The Future of Human-Computer Interaction
    A discussion on how AI will change the way we interact with technology.
    “Is the future typing in a question or speaking to an AI?”
    @ 20m 02s
    May 20, 2025
  • Neuralink's Breakthrough
    Neuralink receives breakthrough designation for its human brain interface, paving the way for FDA approvals.
    “That's a very big step in allowing the FDA to clear everybody getting it implanted.”
    @ 20m 34s
    May 20, 2025
  • AI in Everyday Life
    The speaker reflects on how AI has become a tool in their daily tasks.
    “I feel like I've gotten used to it, but maybe I'll look at it differently.”
    @ 22m 36s
    May 20, 2025
  • Gemini App Launch
    The Gemini app is launched, offering advanced AI capabilities to users.
    “If you're using Gemini, just get the download the actual Gemini app. It's kickass.”
    @ 29m 40s
    May 20, 2025
  • AI's Future Accessibility
    Discussion on the future pricing and accessibility of AI models.
    “I don't think we're going to just be free to everybody right off the bat.”
    @ 30m 41s
    May 20, 2025

Episode Quotes

  • This is like the greatest transformative moment in computer science ever.
    Sergey Brin, Google Co-Founder | All-In Live from Miami
  • AI can definitely surprise you.
    Sergey Brin, Google Co-Founder | All-In Live from Miami
  • I don't know that you need exactly the same number of arms and legs.
    Sergey Brin, Google Co-Founder | All-In Live from Miami
  • Humans are a stepping stone in evolution.
    Sergey Brin, Google Co-Founder | All-In Live from Miami
  • I feel like I've gotten used to it, but maybe I'll look at it differently.
    Sergey Brin, Google Co-Founder | All-In Live from Miami
  • It's free today without ads on the side.
    Sergey Brin, Google Co-Founder | All-In Live from Miami

Key Moments

  • Transformative AI Era01:28
  • AI Surprises06:54
  • College Education Debate11:52
  • Humanoid Robots Discussion13:39
  • Healthy Workplace Culture16:36
  • AI Breakthrough20:34
  • Human Evolution Debate21:46
  • Future AI Accessibility30:41

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