Jeff Dean Co-founds Discovery Loop with Google Veterans to Automate Science
JeffDean · x · 2026-08-06
Google legend Jeff Dean announced the founding of Discovery Loop, a Public Benefit Corporation, alongside longtime collaborators Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le. The four engineers have worked together for 14 to 30 years, helping build Google's core infrastructure and AI models.
The startup's mission is to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate global discoveries and progress.
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