Jeff Dean and Google Veterans Found Discovery Loop to Automate Science and Engineering
TheZachMueller · x · 2026-08-06
Google legend Jeff Dean announced the founding of Discovery Loop alongside Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le. The Public Benefit Corporation aims to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate discoveries and progress.
The four founders have collaborated at Google for 14 to 30 years, helping build widely used infrastructure and AI models. Notably, Oriol Vinyals confirmed his departure from DeepMind after 13 years to join this new endeavor. This signals a major shift for top AI talent towards AI-driven automated research (Autoresearch).
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