United Kingdom, March 4 -- Google's co-founder Sergey Brin has urged the company's AI staff to work harder in order to win the AGI race.

The businessman sent a message to hundreds of employees in Google's DeepMind AI division and encouraged them to "turbocharge their efforts" to become the leader in the artificial general intelligence (AGI) field.

In an internal note to the employees which was seen by The New York Times newspaper, Brin said: "It has been 2 years of the Gemini program and GDM. We have come a long way in that time with many efforts we should feel very proud of. At the same time competition has accelerated immensely and the final race to AGI is afoot. I think we have all the ingredients to win this race but we are going to...