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

Dwarkesh Patel · interview · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it for insight into Google researchers' views on AI progress and publishing, though one commenter finds the interview weak.

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What HN commenters said

  1. “Recommend if you want a taste of what’s Google’s folks take on things.”

    Gives a taste of Google researchers' views on AI

    paulmist, 2026-06 · Recommendation · in “Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: jeff dean, noam shazeer, transformers, gemini, mixture of experts

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