An internal project at Google seeks to equip employees with cutting-edge AI capabilities and hopes to transform the company into an “AI-powered workplace.”
The initiative, codenamed Project EAT, was launched within Google’s AI and Infrastructure division, according to an internal document reviewed by Business Insider.
The division, known internally as AI2, is led by company veteran Amin Vahdat and is spearheading the development of data centers, chips, and other key elements behind Google’s AI technology.
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 founded in May 2025 and began as a grassroots effort among employees, a Google spokesperson told Business Insider. They added that this led to the creation of several AI productivity tools that are now being used by Googlers across the company.
This comes as Google leaders, like other technology companies, are pushing employees across the company to incorporate AI into their workflows.
According to Project EAT’s internal mission statement, the goal is to ensure that 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, dramatically increasing productivity, increasing employee engagement and collaboration, improving quality of work, improving work-life balance, and even greater product innovation across the company,” it reads.
“We aim to lead Google toward this vision by first leading this organizational change within AI2.”
“Secure Google’s technological leadership”
While Google is actively providing AI tools to customers and businesses, it is also rapidly adopting AI tools and practices internally.
Business Insider reported that last June, Megan Kachoria, vice president of engineering, sent an email to engineers instructing them to use AI for coding. Shortly after, CEO Sundar Pichai sent a clear message to his staff. “Our competitors are using AI, and to compete we need to do the same.”
Google appointed Mr. Vahadat to lead its infrastructure group last year and promoted him to senior vice president, reporting to Mr. Pichai, in December. Vahdat has played a key role in shaping Google’s strategy with AI chips, known as TPUs, and has spearheaded efforts to build Google’s AI infrastructure.
As tech companies pour billions of dollars into AI capital spending, much of it at Google is flowing into Vahdat’s organization. A Google spokesperson told Business Insider that A12 employs more than a few thousand people.
An internal FAQ on the Project EAT page reviewed by Business Insider states that there was a 12-week seed stage. This includes promoting state-of-the-art code assistance tools within the AI2 organization, which it says has shown “promising signs of increased development speed, reduced effort, and improved code quality” as a result of the testing period.
A spokesperson confirmed that the name Project EAT comes from Google employees eating their own dog food. Dogfooding is a common practice in technology companies where employees test and iterate products internally before bringing them to market.
According to internal documents, EAT is pilot testing new AI products and standards within AI2, with the goal of eventually rolling them out across the company. “The primary goal of Project EAT is to dramatically accelerate the adoption and integration of Google and third-party AI technologies within Al2.”
It added, “We look forward to improving standard practices across engineering, product management, TPM, and operations, thereby mitigating the risks associated with a rapidly evolving external AI environment and ensuring Google’s technological leadership.”
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