New York (EFE).- Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who left his position in 2019, is now working alongside artificial intelligence (AI) researchers on Google’s next big artificial intelligence system, Gemini, a model that seeks to surpass OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 capabilities, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The billionaire in recent months has been going to the company’s offices in Mountain View, in the state of California, three to four days a week.
According to the newspaper, Brin works in close collaboration with the group of researchers who are creating Google’s new artificial intelligence model.
The billionaire has taken part in decisions on the performance of an AI program over time, participated in the hiring of researchers and called weekly meetings.
Google aims to overtake ChatGPT
The goal of Gemini – a project supervised by Demis Hassabis – is to be as or more powerful than GPT-4, an OpenAI generative AI chatbot that is also used by Microsoft and could be available later this year.
The current CEO, Sundar Pichai, according to the outlet, is enthusiastic about Brin’s involvement and encourages his contributions.
Brin started Google with Larry Page in 1998 when they were studying for a PhD at Stanford University.
Brin is the second largest individual shareholder in Google parent Alphabet, behind Page, with a stake valued at about $90 billion (80.87 billion euros), according to data from S&P Capital IQ.
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Earlier this week Google introduced some of the major US media outlets – including The New York Times (NYT), The Washington Post and the company that owns The Wall Street Journal – a tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to write news called Genesis, according to the NYT.
This new generative AI tool, which has yet to be officially unveiled by Google, according to the newspaper, has the working title of Genesis, and can take information – such as current event data – and generate news articles.
Google’s goal would not be for its tool to take the job of a copywriter, but to help journalists “improve their work and productivity.”