Google co-founder Sergey Brin has expressed his views on workplace culture, emphasizing that employees need to increase their working hours to succeed in the AI competition. In an internal memo, Brin encouraged those involved with the Google’s Gemini AI model to dedicate themselves to 60-hour workweeks and to be in the office every weekday.
“I recommend being in the office at least every weekday,” Brin wrote in the memo, first reported by the Media. He added, “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity,” but also warned that exceeding this threshold could lead to burnout.
Brin criticised employees who were not meeting this expectation, stating, “A number of folks work less than 60 hours and a small number put in the bare minimum to get by. This last group is not only unproductive but also can be highly demoralising to everyone else.”
This initiative from Brin comes amid fierce competition in the AI industry, driven by the swift popularity of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which debuted in 2022 and rapidly gained millions of users. Google is striving to regain its position as a leader in artificial intelligence.
“Competition has accelerated immensely and the final race to AGI is afoot,” Brin wrote. “I think we have all the ingredients to win this race, but we are going to have to turbocharge our efforts.”
He also stressed the importance of leveraging AI to improve productivity, urging engineers to use Google’s own AI tools to enhance their coding capabilities. “We need to become the most efficient coders and AI scientists in the world by using our own AI,” he wrote.
For now, Brin has made it clear: if Google wants to stay ahead in the AI race, it must work harder and faster.
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