Jeff Dean Co-Founds Discovery Loop to Automate AI-Driven Science
altryne · x · 2026-08-06
Google legend Jeff Dean announced the founding of Discovery Loop, a Public Benefit Corporation, alongside longtime collaborators Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le.
The company's mission is to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate discoveries and progress.
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