Google co-founder Sergey Brin is urging employees working on artificial intelligence to spend 60 hours a week in their offices as the search giant faces fierce competition from Openai, Meta, Elon Musk's Xai and China-based Deepseek.
Valued at $144 billion, Bryn told AI workers in a memo that long time is essential for Google to win the race to develop artificial general information.
“I recommend you at least stay in the office every week,” Bryn said in a note. The New York Times first acquired it.
Bryn added that Missive's “60 hours a week is a sweet spot for productivity,” sent to employees working on Google's Gemini AI model.
In the same memo, Bryn also blows up Google employees because he's not doing enough to contribute.
“Many people work less than 60 hours and can get it for a small number of people to get there to get it,” Bryn writes. “This last group is not only counterproductive, but can also be extremely moraleful to everyone else.”
According to the report, the memos do not apply more widely to Google employees.
Google is currently requiring employees to be in the office at least three days a week.
This post was contacted Google for comments about the notes.
Bryn resigned as Google's president in December 2019, but has maintained a seat on the board and continues to play an active role in AI development.
That's what the billionaires were Listed as “core contributors” In the original white paper from Google Gemini.
Google is one of several tech giants competing to develop AGI, chatbots and other AI-centric products.
Openai and Grok each released major updates to their chatbots last week.
And last month, Deepseek sparked a $1 trillion sale in the US market by unveiling an AI model that it claims to have trained for under $6 million.
With the competition in full swing, top technology executives are putting pressure on employees to achieve better results.
Meta recently fired around 4,000 employees, or 5% of the workforce, after identifying “low performance” within its ranks.
At the same time, Mark Zuckerberg said he expects a “severe year” in the industry.
