--- title: Sergey Brin is back at Google, working on Gemini | daily.dev description: Sergey Brin, holding no formal executive title at Google, has reportedly gained growing influence over Gemini by working from a converted microkitchen at... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/sergey-brin-is-back-at-google-working-on-gemini-qq3ts4usf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Sergey Brin is back at Google, working on Gemini | daily.dev og:description: Sergey Brin, holding no formal executive title at Google, has reportedly gained growing influence over Gemini by working from a converted microkitchen at... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/sergey-brin-is-back-at-google-working-on-gemini-qq3ts4usf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/qq3Ts4uSF.png og:image:alt: Sergey Brin is back at Google, working on Gemini og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Sergey Brin is back at Google, working on Gemini **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 5 min read · 2 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary Sergey Brin, holding no formal executive title at Google, has reportedly gained growing influence over Gemini by working from a converted microkitchen at Mountain View headquarters, according to Business Insider's reporting on eight current and former employees. Following August's DeepMind leadership reshuffle (Demis Hassabis becoming Alphabet's chief scientist, Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over as SVP, Jeff Dean departing after 27 years), Brin reportedly sits alongside Kavukcuoglu and hosts visits from Sundar Pichai and a Gemini coding team. He has influenced model sizes, release windows, AGI strategy, killed and later revived a chip project called Frozen, pushed monitoring employee coding data to train Gemini, and championed recursive self-improvement research. The piece also covers Google's competitive pressure ahead of Gemini 4, researcher departures, DeepMind's new AlphaGenome Atlas genomic database release, and former DeepMind researchers founding a fusion-control startup called Fusionality. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What happened to Jeff Dean at Google DeepMind? Jeff Dean left Google DeepMind after 27 years to start his own company, following an August leadership reshuffle in which Demis Hassabis gave up the Google DeepMind chief executive title to become Alphabet's chief scientist, and Koray Kavukcuoglu became senior vice president of Google DeepMind. Dean previously led a chip project internally known as Frozen, which Sergey Brin reportedly cut in 2025. _daily.dev keeps engineers following AI leadership shifts like this one up to date on the fallout._ ### What is AlphaGenome Atlas from DeepMind? AlphaGenome Atlas is a 1-petabyte database released by DeepMind containing precomputed predictions for all 9 billion possible single-letter changes in the human genome, letting researchers rank which variants are most likely to affect a trait or disease. It is free for researchers, while commercial users like Isomorphic Labs pay a license fee; it helped identify a DNM1 variant linked to severe epilepsy in one test. _researchers evaluating genomic AI tools can track releases like AlphaGenome Atlas on daily.dev._ ### How do Google researchers get access to TPU compute for Gemini development? Google researchers formally request TPU chip access through a process requiring sign-off from senior managers, though this route can be difficult even for the Gemini team. Some teams instead trade work with other groups in exchange for chip access, and an informal alternative is appealing directly to Sergey Brin, who has outsized influence over resource allocation despite holding no executive title. _developers navigating internal compute politics can follow how major AI labs allocate resources on daily.dev._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@zx8086** · 1 upvotes > Don't Be Evil Sergey **@petecapecod** · 0 upvotes > Yeah they need all the help they can get over there. **@devcoville** · 0 upvotes > He needs to learn from DeepSeek and release more open weight models that run on consumer hardware. Gemma5 before the end of the year. --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#google-gemini](https://daily.dev/tags/google-gemini), [#google-deepmind](https://daily.dev/tags/google-deepmind) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/sergey-brin-is-back-at-google-working-on-gemini-qq3ts4usf) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Sergey Brin is back at Google, working on Gemini","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/sergey-brin-is-back-at-google-working-on-gemini-qq3ts4usf","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/sergey-brin-is-back-at-google-working-on-gemini-qq3ts4usf"},"datePublished":"2026-09-11T07:39:37.350Z","dateModified":"2026-09-11T07:40:04.154Z","description":"Sergey Brin, holding no formal executive title at Google, has reportedly gained growing influence over Gemini by working from a converted microkitchen at...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/aeeef0601da9dee113034504d4f72624?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/aeeef0601da9dee113034504d4f72624?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Next Web","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Next Web","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tnw","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},"commentCount":2,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/sergey-brin-is-back-at-google-working-on-gemini-qq3ts4usf","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}],"keywords":"ai,google-gemini,google-deepmind","timeRequired":"PT5M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Next Web","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Sergey Brin is back at Google, working on Gemini"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/sergey-brin-is-back-at-google-working-on-gemini-qq3ts4usf","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Don’t Be Evil Sergey","datePublished":"2026-09-11T09:49:08.099Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/qq3Ts4uSF#c-H8fradyhk","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"7-Zark-7","url":"https://daily.dev/zx8086","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/v1666169239/avatars/avatar_rsfQchPIj.jpg"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Yeah they need all the help they can get over there.","datePublished":"2026-09-11T13:01:35.264Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/qq3Ts4uSF#c-LC4RAoHn3","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Peter Cruckshank","url":"https://daily.dev/petecapecod","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--ZJhQyKws--/f_auto/v1721235024/avatars/avatar_A9xh33q0QoxtkGoJRCosp"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/sergey-brin-is-back-at-google-working-on-gemini-qq3ts4usf#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What happened to Jeff Dean at Google DeepMind?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Jeff Dean left Google DeepMind after 27 years to start his own company, following an August leadership reshuffle in which Demis Hassabis gave up the Google DeepMind chief executive title to become Alphabet's chief scientist, and Koray Kavukcuoglu became senior vice president of Google DeepMind. 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