Google Brain

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4 statements across 4 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jun 16, 2016 by Christopher Nguyen · said 19 times in 9 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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brought up most by Neil Zeghidour (5), Matt Turck (3), Aidan Gomez (3), Gustavo Sapoznik (2), Zico Kolter (1), Mostafa Dehghani (1), Dylan Fox (1), Corinna Hong (1)

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Jun 16, 2016 neutral
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Nguyen: In 2016, Google Brain is at the intelligence of a cockroach
“If you look at the Google brain, it's at the level of a, about a cockroach. Ok? And it's got about a million neurons.”
Christopher Nguyen Jun 16, 2016 ▶ 14:59 The Path to A.I. Augmented Human Intelligence // Christopher Nguyen, Arimo [FirstMark's Data Driven]
Jun 5, 2025
Disclosure
Google Brain accidentally hired Aidan Gomez as an undergrad intern
“I think I got in through an administrative mistake because my manager thought I was a PhD student.”
Aidan Gomez Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 4:26 Inside the Paper That Changed AI Forever - Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez on 2025 Agents
Feb 19, 2026
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Zeghidour: Speech AI was largely considered a solved problem at Google Brain in 2019
“At that time, it was interesting because so I joined working on speech in Google Brain, and there were almost nobody working on speech in Google Brain. It was not considered vibrant research topic. It was like a product topic. A lot of people were saying, oh, …”
Neil Zeghidour Feb 19, 2026 ▶ 16:16 Voice AI’s Big Moment: Top Researcher on Why Everything Is Changing (Neil Zeghidour, Gradium AI)
Apr 2, 2026
Disclosure
Dehghani initially thought Google's Transformer architecture was random and would die
“And I was like, I don't know if I want to go with this team. It's just like, they're doing something random. Like who, like everybody's doing LST. I'm like, why should I go and work with like a group of people who are working on this like random architecture, …”
Mostafa Dehghani Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 35:23 AI is Already Building AI — Google DeepMind’s Mostafa Dehghani
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