Google’s Sergey Brin: ‘I made a lot of mistakes with Google Glass’

Google co-founder Sergey Brin mentioned he “made lots of errors with Google Glass” throughout an onstage interview at Google I/O 2025 on Tuesday. Brin was a shock addition to an interview with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis performed by Large Expertise Podcast’s Alex Kantrowitz.

Brin went on to say he “didn’t know something about client digital provide chains,” or how tough it will be to construct good glasses at an affordable value level. The Google co-founder famous he’s an enormous believer within the type issue of good glasses, and mentioned he’s glad the corporate is pursuing them but once more, this time with “nice companions who’re serving to us construct this.”

Earlier on Tuesday, Google unveiled its newest effort to develop Android XR good glasses, roughly a decade after the Google Glass challenge shut down. Onstage, Google leaders showcased how their good glasses, powered by DeepMind’s Venture Astra, may help with stay translations, instructions, and usually AI queries.

To develop Android XR glasses with AI and AR capabilities, Google is working with a community of companions, equivalent to Samsung and Xreal. Google can be investing as much as $150 million in a partnership with Warby Parker, and taking an fairness stake within the eyewear firm, to assist its good glasses efforts. As Brin referenced, these skilled eyewear and electronics makers could possibly assist with a number of the provide chain issues related to producing good glasses.

Brin famous how the appearance of generative AI makes the capabilities of good glasses rather more tangible than when Google Glass was round.

Earlier within the interview, Brin acknowledged how he’s successfully come out of retirement to work on Google’s Gemini efforts. The Google co-founder says he’s within the Mountain View, California workplace almost day-after-day, and says he’s serving to the Gemini crew with multimodal initiatives, equivalent to Google’s video-generating mannequin Veo 3.

“Anyone who’s a pc scientist shouldn’t be retired proper now,” mentioned Brin. “They need to be engaged on AI.”

Earlier stories have instructed that Brin has pushed Google’s Gemini groups fairly aggressively to compete within the AI race. Reportedly, Brin advised Google staff in a memo they need to be within the workplace no less than each weekday, and that working 60 hours per week is probably going the candy spot for productiveness.