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

Why it was recommended

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

Recommendationpaulmist · Original2026-06

What it covers

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. It is for someone who already knows the basic terms and wants the next step.

Video details

Channel

Dwarkesh Patel

Length

2 hr 15 min

Year

2025

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