But now that the tech giant is the No. 5 biggest company in the world (as of press time), the bosses want employees at their desks, not carports. In a memo viewed by The New York Times and posted internally to employees working on Google's Gemini AI,

Brin called for Googlers working on the company's AI products to increase their hours in a memo seen by The New York Times.

Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, is urging employees to work 60-hour weeks on developing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Brin's journey from Russia to the U.S. and his academic achievements at Stanford,

Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder, is driving a 60-hour workweek to win the AGI race, a journey rooted in his escape from Russia and rise to billionaire status.

Brin has urged those working on the Gemini AI models to commit to 60-hour workweeks and come to the office every weekday. This statement comes at a time of intense competition in the AI sector, accelerated by the rapid surge of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Mr Brin, who is estimated to be worth $144 billion, emphasised that "60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity" in a memo.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin in an internal memo to employees on Wednesday suggested that employees should work harder to make the company a leader in the AI space. He backed a 60-hour work week