Google Legend Jeff Dean Announces Departure to Found Discovery Loop
yizhu59 · x · 2026-08-06
Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean announced he is co-founding Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation, with longtime collaborators Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le.
The new company's mission is to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate discoveries and progress. The departure of these four core figures, who have worked together at Google for 14 to 30 years, marks a massive new team entering the AI science research landscape.
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