Jeff Dean's New Venture 'Discovery Loop' Aims to Automate Science
vitaliychiley · x · 2026-08-06
Google legend Jeff Dean, alongside Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le, announced the founding of their new startup, Discovery Loop. Incorporated as a public benefit corporation, the company's mission is to automate the process of discovery and progress in machine learning, science, and engineering.
Renowned venture capitalist Vinod Khosla expressed immense excitement in backing this superstar team, suggesting their impact could be larger than Google's when Khosla backed them in 1998.
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