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

Co-founder of Google Sergey Brin said that he “made many mistakes with Google Glass” during an interview on stage on Google I/O 2025 on Tuesday. Brin was a surprising addition to an interview with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis led by Big Technology Podcast’s Alex Kantritwitz.

Brin continued to say that he “knew nothing about electronic supply chains of consumers,” or how difficult it would be to build smart glasses at a reasonable price. The co-founder of Google noted that he is a strong supporter of the form factor of smart glasses, and said that he is happy that the company is haunting them again, this time with “great partners to help us build this.”

Earlier on Tuesday, Google revealed its latest attempt to develop Android XR Smart glasses, about a decade after the Google Glass project was switched off. On stage, Google leaders showed how their smart glasses, powered by DeepMind’s project Astra, could help with live translations, instructions and in general AI questions.

To develop Android XR glasses with AI and AR possibilities, Google works with a network of partners, such as Samsung and Xreal. Google also invests up to $ 150 million in a partnership with Warby Parker, and takes a share interest in the spectacle company to support the efforts of smart glasses. As Brin has referred, those experienced glasses and electronics makers may help with some of the supply chain problems related to producing smart glasses.

Brin noticed how the arrival of generative AI makes the possibilities of smart glasses much more tangible than when Google Glass was there.

Earlier in the interview, Brin acknowledged how he effectively retired to work on the Gemini efforts of Google. The co-founder of Google says that he is almost every day in the Mountain View, California Office, and says that he helps the Gemini team with multimodal projects, such as Google’s video generating model VEO 3.

“Everyone who is a computer scientist should not retire now,” said Brin. “They should work on AI.”

Previous reports have suggested that Brin has pushed the Gemini teams from Google quite aggressively To compete in the AI ​​race. Allegedly, Brin Google -employees in a memo said that they should be at the office at least every weekday and that 60 hours a week is probably the Sweet Spot for productivity.