Google co-founder Sergey Brin is urging staff engaged on synthetic intelligence to spend at the least 60 hours per week within the workplace because the search big faces heated competitors from OpenAI, Meta, Elon Musk’s xAI and China-based DeepSeek.
Brin, who’s value $144 billion, informed AI staff in a memo that the longer hours are important for Google to win the race to develop synthetic normal intelligence – outlined as AI with human-level intelligence or larger.
“I recommend being in the office at least every weekday,” Brin mentioned within the memo, which was first obtained by the New York Instances.
Brin added that “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity” within the missive, which was despatched to staff engaged on Google’s Gemini AI fashions.
In the identical memo, Brin additionally blasted some Google worker for not doing sufficient to contribute.
“A number of folks work less than 60 hours and a small number put in the bare minimum to get by,” Brin wrote. “This last group is not only unproductive but also can be highly demoralizing to everyone else.”
The memo doesn’t apply to Google staff extra broadly, based on the report.
Google at present requires its staff to be within the workplace at the least three days per week.
The Publish has reached out to Google for touch upon the memo.
Brin stepped down as Google’s president in December 2019, however maintains a seat on its board of administrators and has continued to play an energetic function in its AI improvement.
The billionaire was listed as a “core contributor” on the unique white paper for Google Gemini.
Google is one among a number of tech giants competing to develop AGI, chatbots and different AI-centric merchandise.
OpenAI and Grok have every launched main updates to their chatbots inside the final week.
And final month, DeepSeek sparked a $1 trillion selloff in US markets by unveiling an AI mannequin it claimed to have skilled for lower than $6 million.
With competitors in full swing, prime tech executives are ratcheting up stress on their staff to ship higher outcomes.
Meta not too long ago laid off about 4,000 staff, or 5% of its workforce, after figuring out “low performers” inside its ranks.
On the identical time, Mark Zuckerberg informed Meta’s workforce that he expects an “intense year” within the trade.
