Jeff Dean leaves Google to build next-gen research system with Discovery Loop
TheTuringPost · x · 2026-08-09
The Turing Post notes that amid Jeff Dean leaving Google, Demis Hassabis stepping away, and Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over, Dean's pattern is 'turn a rare capability into shared infrastructure' (MapReduce, TensorFlow, TPUs, Pathways). Now they leave Google to build the next great research system with Discovery Loop.
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