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.
It comes as Google leaders, like those at other tech companies, are pushing for employees across the company to adopt AI into their workflows.
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.”
‘Ensuring Google’s technological leadership’
While Google is aggressively shipping AI tools to customers and businesses, it’s also fast adopting AI tools and practices internally.
Last June, engineering VP Megan Kacholia sent an email telling engineers to use AI for coding, Business Insider reported. Shortly after, CEO Sundar Pichai sent a clear message to staff: our rivals are using AI, and we need to do the same to compete.
Google appointed Vahdat to lead its infrastructure group last year, and in December, he was promoted to senior vice president, reporting directly to Pichai. Vahdat played a key role in shaping Google’s strategy with its AI chips, known as TPUs, and has spearheaded Google’s efforts to build out its AI infrastructure.
As tech companies pour billions into AI capital expenditure, a huge share of it at Google is going into Vahdat’s org. A Google spokesperson told Business Insider that A12 employs more than several thousand people.
An internal FAQ for the Project EAT page, reviewed by Business Insider, states that it had a 12-week seed-stage. It notes that this included a push for state-of-the-art code assistance tools within the AI2 org and that the test period resulted in “promising signs of improved developer velocity, reduced toil, and enhanced code quality.”
The name Project EAT is a reference to Google employees eating their own dog food, a spokesperson confirmed. Dogfooding is a common practice at tech companies where employees internally test and iterate products before launching them to market.
Internal documents suggest EAT is pilot-testing new AI products and standards within AI2, with the goal of eventually adopting them across the company. “The primary goal of Project EAT is to dramatically accelerate the adoption and integration of Google and 3rd party AI technologies within Al2.”
It adds: “We expect to improve standard practices across engineering, product management, TPM, and operations, thereby mitigating risks associated with the rapidly evolving external AI landscape and ensuring Google’s technological leadership.”
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