Sergey Brin Directs Google AI Toward Recursive Self-Improvement
kimmonismus · x · 2026-08-13
According to Reuters, Sergey Brin is steering Google's AI resources toward recursive self-improvement. He has urged key staff to catch up with the frontier and pushed for AI that can evolve without human intervention. Following Anthropic's rapid advancements, Google subsequently delayed its next flagship Gemini model by two months.
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