According to @JeffDean, a custom Lego action figure set featuring himself and Sanjay Ghemawat was recently designed by @ksoonson and showcased on social media (source: @JeffDean on Twitter, Jan 1, 2026). The set notably includes the pair holding the influential MapReduce paper, highlighting their pioneering work in distributed computing and its critical impact on large-scale AI data processing. This creative tribute underscores the foundational role of MapReduce in modern AI infrastructure, emphasizing the continued business relevance of scalable data processing systems for AI enterprises (source: @m4rkmc on Twitter, Jan 1, 2026).

According to @JeffDean, the New Yorker article titled 'The Friendship That Made Google Huge' provides a detailed look at the collaborative working style between Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, which played a pivotal role in Google's engineering breakthroughs. The article highlights how their partnership and approach to problem-solving enabled the development of scalable AI systems, significantly impacting Google’s ability to deploy advanced machine learning infrastructure at scale (source: The New Yorker, 2018-12-10). This case exemplifies the importance of collaborative AI engineering for accelerating innovation and sustaining a competitive edge in the AI industry.

According to Jeff Dean (@JeffDean), he and Sanjay Ghemawat have published an external version of their internal Performance Hints document, which summarizes years of expertise in performance tuning for code used in AI systems and large-scale computing. The document, available at abseil.io/fast/hints.html, outlines concrete principles such as optimizing memory access patterns, minimizing unnecessary computations, and leveraging hardware-specific optimizations—critical for improving inference and training speeds in AI models. These guidelines help AI engineers and businesses unlock greater efficiency and cost savings in deploying large-scale AI applications, directly impacting operational performance and business value (source: Jeff Dean on Twitter).