Jeff Dean Co-founds Discovery Loop with Google AI Veterans to Automate Science
firstadopter · x · 2026-08-06
Google legends Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le have co-founded Discovery Loop, a Public Benefit Corporation. The team, bringing 14 to 30 years of collaboration at Google, was instrumental in building foundational systems like GFS, MapReduce, TensorFlow, AlphaStar, and Gemini.
The new venture aims to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate scientific discovery. Former colleagues noted that this team's unparalleled expertise in infrastructure and AI could fundamentally transform AI-driven research loops.
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