Oriol Vinyals Leaves DeepMind to Join Jeff Dean's New Startup
OriolVinyalsML · x · 2026-08-06
Google DeepMind executive and Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals announced his departure from the company. He reflected on his 13-year journey at Google, which started with a quick email exchange with Jeff Dean, and his work leading major projects like AlphaStar and Gemini.
Vinyals will now follow his original mentor to take on a drastic new challenge, joining Jeff Dean and others to co-found Discovery Loop, focusing on automating science and engineering.
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