Jeff Dean and 3 Google Legends Found AI Startup Discovery Loop
coherence · x · 2026-08-06
Jeff Dean, along with Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le, announced the founding of Discovery Loop, a Public Benefit Corporation. The four top Google scientists, who have collaborated for 14 to 30 years, were instrumental in creating core infrastructure and models like TensorFlow, TPUs, AlphaFold, and Gemini. The new startup's mission is to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate discoveries and progress.
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