Jeff Dean and Top Google AI Scientists Leave to Found Discovery Loop
fhinkel · x · 2026-08-06
Top Google AI scientists Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le have announced the founding of Discovery Loop, a Public Benefit Corporation. The four collaborators, who have worked together for 14 to 30 years, aim to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate discoveries and progress. This marks a significant trend where top-tier AI talent is focusing heavily on automating scientific research through AI.
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