TL;DR

  • A growing collection of interviews with Sergey Brin, Google co-founder and an active voice on AI now that he is back hands-on at Google working on Gemini
  • His perspective spans foundational models, open-source strategy, AI robotics, AGI timelines, and the future of human-computer interaction
  • Brin’s return to coding in 2024 makes him an unusually direct signal of how Google is positioning itself against OpenAI, Anthropic, and the rest of the frontier lab field
  • Sits alongside the Geoffrey Hinton interviews and other founder-level commentary on where AI is headed
  • Page will be expanded as new interviews appear - this is a working index, not a finished archive

About

Sergey Brin co-founded Google with Larry Page in 1998 while a PhD student at Stanford. He stepped back from day-to-day operations at parent company Alphabet in 2019, but returned to active engineering work on Gemini in 2024 as the competitive pressure from frontier AI labs intensified.

A few things make his voice distinctive in the current AI conversation:

  • Hands-on, not above-it-all: Brin is reportedly in the office most days and writing code, which is unusual for a founder of his vintage and net worth. His interviews tend to be more technical and less PR-shaped than the typical executive appearance.
  • Long view on search and information retrieval: Google’s original problem was ranking the web. Brin frames LLMs as a continuation of that problem rather than a break from it, which shapes how he thinks about hallucination, grounding, and retrieval.
  • Public scepticism of humanoid robotics: He has argued that AI can learn from simulation without needing a humanoid form, putting him at odds with the Figure, 1X, and Tesla Optimus camps.
  • AGI timeline alignment with DeepMind: At Google I/O 2025 he and Demis Hassabis both placed AGI around 2030, which is a more aggressive timeline than the wider Google PR position usually suggests.

Interviews

[2025-05] Sergey Brin on the Future of AI & Gemini

A Google I/O 2025 conversation reflecting on a year of Gemini progress, what it took internally to ship at the current pace, and where the model line is heading next. Published on the Google for Developers channel.

[2025-05] Sergey Brin on Google’s Shift Back to Startup Mode and AI

Brin in conversation with Logan Kilpatrick (via PodiumVC), discussing how Google has restructured internally to move faster, the culture change required to compete with smaller labs, and his read on the current model landscape.

[2025-05] Sergey Brin, Google Co-Founder | All-In Live from Miami

Live appearance on the All-In podcast, covering his return to Google, AI’s true superpower, robotics form factors, foundational models and open-source, and the future of human-computer interaction.

Timestamps:

  • (0:00) The Besties welcome Sergey Brin
  • (0:40) Sergey on his return to Google, and how an OpenAI employee played a role
  • (5:58) AI’s true superpower and the next jump
  • (12:23) AI robotics: humanoids and other form factors
  • (17:07) Future of foundational models and open-source
  • (19:59) Human-computer interaction in the age of AI
  • (31:09) Partner shoutouts

[2025-05] Why AI is more important than the Internet - Interview with Sergey Brin

A shorter-form interview where Brin makes the case that AI is a bigger inflection than the web itself, with reference to how Google’s own product surface is being rewritten around generative interfaces.

[2024-09] Sergey Brin | All-In Summit 2024

Brin’s first major public appearance after returning to hands-on work at Google. Covers what he is actually building, why he came back, and his early read on where Gemini sits in the frontier model field.

[2024] Sergey Brin: Lessons from Google Glass + Why Every Computer Scientist Should be Working on AI

Long-form conversation with Alex Kantrowitz covering what Google Glass got wrong (and why it might be right now), and Brin’s argument that every computer scientist should be working on AI given the stakes.

Note: This page will be expanded with additional Sergey Brin interviews as they become available.