Inside Google's 'Project EAT,' its plan to supercharge staff with AI

"A project inside Google is attempting to supercharge employees with cutting-edge AI abilities - and hopes to turn the company into an "AI-powered workplace." The initiative, codenamed "Project EAT," was spun up inside Google's "AI and Infrastructure" unit, according to internal documents reviewed by Business Insider. The unit, internally abbreviated AI2 and led by company veteran Amin Vahdat, spearheads work on data centers, chips, and other key ingredients that underpin Google's AI technologies."

"According to internal documents, Project EAT was created to help employees adopt various AI products and standardize their use across the organization. Project EAT was created in May 2025 and began as a grassroots initiative among employees, a Google spokesperson told Business Insider. They added that it has led to the creation of some AI productivity tools that Googlers across the company are now using."

"Per an internal mission statement for Project EAT, the goal is to ensure AI2 is at the cutting edge of AI - from productivity tools to coding. "We envision a future where Google is transformed into an AI-powered workplace, leading to dramatically higher productivity, greater employee engagement and collaboration, improved quality of work, better work-life balance, and greater product innovation across the company," it reads. "We aim to lead Google into this vision by first leading this organizational change within AI2.""

Project EAT launched in May 2025 as a grassroots employee initiative inside Google's AI and Infrastructure unit (AI2). AI2, led by Amin Vahdat, manages data centers, chips, and infrastructure that support Google's AI capabilities. Project EAT helps employees adopt AI products, standardize their use across the organization, and build internal AI productivity tools now used by Googlers. The vision is to transform Google into an AI-powered workplace to increase productivity, employee engagement and collaboration, improve work quality and work-life balance, and accelerate product innovation. Google leaders are encouraging broader employee adoption of AI as competitors pursue similar shifts.

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