Jeff Dean Co-founds Discovery Loop, Raises Seed Round
radicalvcfund · x · 2026-08-06
Core Google AI figures including Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le have co-founded Discovery Loop, aiming to automate the scientific experimental loop using frontier AI and massive-scale compute. The company announced a seed round co-led by Radical Ventures.
Core Vision:
- Automating the Scientific Method: Systems will rapidly propose, run, and learn from evaluations, executing thousands of experiments in parallel to drastically compress iteration time.
- Starting with ML: Initial focus will be on automating ML research and engineering, acting as its own first customer to optimize its tech stack.
- Ultimate Goal: Tackling National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges, such as engineering better medicines and making solar energy economical.
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