Sergey Brin Urges DeepMind Staff to Accelerate or Face Extinction
beffjezos · x · 2026-08-13
Reuters reports that Google co-founder Sergey Brin has urged key staff to go all-in on Gemini and catch up to the frontier. During a DeepMind town hall, he emphasized the need to move faster, reportedly stating, "We either accelerate or we die."
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