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Sergey Brin

Co-Founder & Director, Alphabet Inc. (Google)

Search every verified Sergey Brin interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Sergey Brin appeared on the October 14, 2026 episode of the Google DeepMind podcast "Release Notes" to discuss the launch of Gemini 4 Argon. During the conversation, he attributed the release to a deliberate increase in development cadence and the use of Google's own models to build subsequent generations, while also noting that "generational leaps" in technology cannot be precisely scheduled. He expressed enthusiasm for the current pace of model iteration, referencing prior versions such as Flash 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8, and mentioned that he and colleague Melvin Johnson were already discussing the next model version during the recording. Brin also participated in a discussion about the model's capabilities and internal testing, noting that 100,000 Googlers tested the model before launch. In the transcript, he commented on the model's ability to check its own outputs without displaying ego, and he referenced teams using the model for code migrations, such as converting Fortran codebases to Rust. He did not make any policy or business announcements beyond the technical and development aspects of the model release.

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“I do talk to Gemini live in the car often and I ask... whatever I want to develop a data center, you know, whatever I need how many hundreds of megawatts of this kind of power, that kind of power, how much it's going to cost, and I just talk to it about stuff on my drive.”

“I guess I would say in some ways we for sure messed up and that we underinvested and sort of didn't take it as seriously as we should have say eight years ago when we published the transformer paper. We actually didn't take it all that seriously and didn't necessarily invest in scaling the compute and also we were too scared to bring it to people because chatbots say dumb things.”

“If the timeline from an academic idea to commercial application compresses a lot, then it no longer makes as much sense to do decade‑long academic research; industry is now doing many of those things and may scale them much faster.”

“We for sure messed up in that we underinvested and didn't take it as seriously as we should have, say eight years ago when we published the transformer paper. We also were too scared to bring it to people because chatbots say dumb things, and OpenAI ran with it — which was a super smart insight.”

“I think we're taking a very anthropocentric view when we say simulation as some conscious being running a simulation with desire and consciousness similar to us. I just don't think we're really equipped to reason about one level up in the hierarchy.”

“I think that argument applies recursively. If we're in a simulation, then by the same argument, whatever beings are making the simulation are themselves in a simulation for roughly the same reasons, and so on. So you either accept that we're in an infinite stack of simulations or that there's got to be some stopping criteria.”

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