Jeff Dean and 3 Google AI Veterans Leave to Found Discovery Loop
NirantK · x · 2026-08-06
Google legends Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le have announced the founding of Discovery Loop, a Public Benefit Corporation.
The four longtime collaborators, who have worked together for 14 to 30 years, are leaving Google with a mission to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate discoveries and progress.
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