Jeff Dean & 3 Top Google AI Brains Leave to Launch Discovery Loop
willknight · x · 2026-08-06
Jeff Dean, Chief Scientist at Google, along with three other high-profile executives and top AI scientists, is officially leaving Google to found an AI startup named Discovery Loop, Wired reports.
- Mission: The startup aims to build an automated version of the scientific method—running loops of proposing, implementing, evaluating, and getting results from experiments—to unlock breakthroughs in domains like drug discovery, chip design, and AI model improvement.
- Impact: Dean, who co-founded Google Brain and co-led the Gemini model, has been at Google for nearly 27 years. His departure is considered a devastating blow to the search giant as it attempts to maintain its pace in the frantic AI model competition.
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