Episode
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI
Dwarkesh Podcast · Feb 12, 2025 · 2 h 15 min
This week I welcome on the show two of the most important technologists ever, in any field. Jeff Dean is Google's Chief Scientist, and through 25 years at the company, has worked on basically the most transformative systems in modern computing: from MapReduce, BigTable, Tensorflow, AlphaChip, to Gemini. Noam Shazeer invented or co-invented all the main architectures and techniques that are used…