Sergey Brin says Google's AI models are reaching a critical moment of self-improvement
Source: Business Insider ·
The Google cofounder said Gemini models were increasingly helping to build their successors as the industry races toward RSI.
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Sergey Brin has been helping to steer Google's AI efforts.Win McNamee/Getty ImagesSergey Brin said Google's Gemini models are increasingly helping to build their successors.Recursive self-improvement, or RSI, is the next big race in AI.A Google safety report said a "majority" of code was being produced by AI agents.Google may be approaching a pivotal moment in AI.In a roundtable discussion about the creation of Google's new Gemini 4 model, Argon, company cofounder Sergey Brin said that AI development was accelerating internally and that models are now helping build their successors.This concept, known as recursive self-improvement (RSI), means AI helps build better AI systems, which can set off a flywheel that speeds up the pace of building new models.Brin pointed to the releases of Google's Flash models before Gemini 4 as evidence that this was happening, and said the company was "starting to get onto that RSI treadmill.""And now our researchers and the model work hand in hand to…