Oriol Vinyals, Gemini Co-Lead, Departs Google DeepMind to Found Discover
ylecun · x · 2026-08-06
Oriol Vinyals, Vice President of Research at Google DeepMind and co-lead of Gemini, announced his departure from the company. Reflecting on his 13-year tenure at Google, he highlighted his work co-leading major projects like AlphaStar and Gemini. He is leaving to start a new company named Discover.
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