Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

Dwarkesh Patel

Why leaders watch it

Google veterans reflect on long-run technology bets; interesting but mostly technical.

Dwarkesh Patel interviews Google's Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer about 25 years at the company, from PageRank and MapReduce to the Transformer, mixture of experts and Gemini. They also discuss where AI is heading.

Topics: Innovation & creativity, Company case studies

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