Brin: Multiple entities will reach AGI quickly following the first breakthrough
Sergey Brin · DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis + Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin: AGI by 2030? · May 21, 2025 · at 11:17
Google co-founder Sergey Brin discusses whether artificial general intelligence will be monopolized by a single winner or achieved by multiple competing organizations.
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“I guess I would suppose that one company or country or entity will reach AGI first. Now it is a little bit of a, you know, kind of a spectrum. It's not like a completely precise thing, so it's conceivable that there will be more than one roughly in that range at the same time. After that, what happens, I mean, I think it's very hard to foresee, but you could certainly imagine there's going to be multiple entities that come through and In our AI space, you know, we've seen, ah, whatever, when we make a certain kind of advance, like other companies are quick to follow, and vice versa, when other companies make certain advances, it's, you know, it's a kind of a constant leapfrog, so I do think there's an inspiration element that you see, ah, and that would probably encourage more and more entities to cross that threshold.”
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