Jeff Dean and Top Researchers Launch Discovery Loop for AI Science
daniel_mac8 · x · 2026-08-06
Google legends Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le have officially announced the founding of Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation. The four researchers, who have collaborated for 14 to 30 years, stated that the new company's mission is to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate discoveries and progress.
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