Google AI Legends Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals & Quoc Le Found Discovery Loop
jacalulu · x · 2026-08-06
Google AI pioneers Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le have announced the founding of Discovery Loop, a Public Benefit Corporation.
The startup's mission is to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate scientific discoveries and overall progress. The four founders have a long history of collaboration at Google, working together for 14 to 30 years.
Related event: Four Google AI veterans leave to co-found Discovery Loop(46 posts)→
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