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Google co-founder Brin pushes DeepMind to speed up Gemini AI
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has been pressing DeepMind employees to go all in on the Gemini model as the company struggles to keep pace with OpenAI and Anthropic. Reuters reports that Brin…
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has been pressing DeepMind employees to go all in on the Gemini model as the company struggles to keep pace with OpenAI and Anthropic. Reuters reports that Brin spoke to hundreds of staff at an April town hall, urging them to move faster after Anthropic previewed its Claude Mythos model. Google had briefly overtaken rivals last November but new updates from competitors put it back in catch-up mode.
By August, Google delayed its next flagship Gemini version by two months after internal testing showed it still trailed rivals in coding. On August 5, Google overhauled DeepMind leadership: Demis Hassabis stepped aside as chief to become chair, and deputy Koray Kavukcuoglu took over. The two original technical co-leads of Gemini quit to co-found a startup. An all-hands meeting on August 6 confirmed that some teams would move from DeepMind into Google's corporate structure, eroding the lab's autonomy.
The Indian Opinion
The dominant story here is that Google is losing the AI race. That is half right. Google clearly fell behind on the latest Gemini model, and internal testing showed it lagged on coding. But the narrative of a helpless giant ignores that Google still has the best-funded AI lab in the world and a co-founder personally demanding faster work. The real test will be whether the restructuring speeds up releases or merely shifts control from London to Mountain View. Watch the next Gemini shipping date, not the headlines.
Sources (3): timesnownews.com, thehindu.com, timesofindia.indiatimes.com
This story was synthesised by AI from the 3 sources linked above.
Updated: this story now draws on 3 sources.
