Jeff Dean Leaves Google After 27 Years to Co-found @DiscoLoopAI
JeffDean · x · 2026-08-06
Google AI chief Jeff Dean announced that tomorrow will be his last day at Google, capping off a 27-year career. He reflected on the company's growth from 25 employees to over 190,000 and expressed deep gratitude to his colleagues.
For his next chapter, Dean revealed he is starting a new AI venture called @DiscoLoopAI, co-founded with longtime Google colleagues Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le.
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