Noam Shazeer

You know, building something that is used by, you know, today 2 billion people a day I think is pretty incredible.

But I would also say equally exciting is sort of working with people in the Gemini team today.

I think the progress we've been making in what these models can do over the last year and a half or whatever is really fun.

People are really dedicated, really excited about what we're doing.

I think the models are getting better and better at pretty complex tasks.

Like if you showed someone using a computer 20 years ago what these models are capable of,

they wouldn't believe it.

Even five years ago, they might not believe it.

That's pretty satisfying.

I think we'll see a similar growth in usage of these models and impact in the world.

Yeah, I'm with you.

Oh, we have a micro kitchen area in the building we both sit in.

It's the new so-named Gradient Canopy.

It used to be named Charleston East, and we decided we needed a more exciting name because it's a lot of machine learning researchers and AI research happening in there.

And there's a micro kitchen area that we've set up with, normally it's just like a espresso machine and a bunch of snacks, but this particular one has a bunch of space in it.

So we've set up like maybe 50 desks in there.

And so people are just hanging out in there.

It's a little noisy because people are always grinding beans and brewing espresso, but you also get a lot of face-to-face ideas of connections like, oh, I've tried that.

Did you think about trying this in your idea?

Or, oh, we're going to launch this thing next week.