Jeff Dean Leaves Google to Build Research Automation System with Discovery Loop
TheTuringPost · x · 2026-08-09
TheTuringPost reports that Jeff Dean is leaving Google, with Demis Hassabis stepping down and Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over. Dean's pattern is 'turning rare capabilities into shared infrastructure' (MapReduce, TensorFlow, TPUs, Pathways). Now they are leaving to build a new research system with Discovery Loop.
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