By Henry Chandonnet
Publication Date: 2025-12-16 16:07:00
Sergey Brin has been dogfooding Google’s AI on his commute.
The Google cofounder has been back in the thick of the company’s AI development after stepping down as president of Alphabet in 2019, returning in recent years to work on Gemini.
At a Stanford University panel last week, an audience member asked Brin how he stayed sharp. What podcasts did Brin listen to in the car?
“I do talk to Gemini Live in the car often,” Brin said. “I just talk to it about stuff on my drive.”
Brin gave an example of what he asked Gemini Live while driving: “I want to develop a data center, I need how many hundreds of megawatts of this kind of power, that kind of power, how much it’s going to cost.”
Gemini Live is Google’s voice-enabled AI chatbot. The company first demoed the product in May 2024 at Google I/O and made it freely available in September 2024.
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