Google Sergey Brin’s co -founder said he “made a lot of mistakes with Google Glass” during an interview on Google I/O 2025 on Tuesday. Brin was a surprise in an interview with Google Deepmind Demis Hassabis CEO conducted by Alex Kantrowitz of Big Technology Podcast.
Brin continued to say that “he knew nothing about electronic consumer supply chains”, or how difficult it would be to build smart glasses at a reasonable price. Google’s co -founder noted that he is a great faithful in the form of smart glasses and said he was happy that their company is following again, this time with “great partners who help us build it”.
Earlier on Tuesday, Google presented its latest attempt to develop Android XR smart glasses, about a decade after the Google Glass project was closed. On stage, Google leaders presented how their smart glasses, powered by Deepmind’s project Astra, could help with live translations, instructions and general AI questions.
To develop Android XR glasses with AI and AR capabilities, Google works with a network of partners such as Samsung and Xreal. Google is also investing up to $ 150 million in partnership with Warby Parker and receives a share capital for the glassware company to support its smart glasses efforts. As mentioned by Brin, these experienced glasses and electronics manufacturers can help some of the problems of the supply chain related to the production of smart glasses.
Brin noted that the arrival of genetic AI makes the potential of smart glasses much tangible than when Google Glass was around.
Earlier in the interview, Brin recognized how he came out effectively from his retirement to work on Google Gemini’s efforts. Google’s co -founder says he is in the office of Mountain View, California almost every day and says he helps the Gemini team with multimodal projects, such as the Viegeration model that creates the Google Veo 3 video.
“Anyone who is a computer scientist should not retire right now,” Brin said. “They should work in AI.”
Previous reports have suggested that Brin pushed Google’s Gemini groups quite aggressive to compete in the AI race. Brin reportedly told Google officials in a note that they should be in the office at least every week and that the job of 60 hours a week is likely to be a sweet spot for productivity.
