Jeff Dean & Google AI Legends Found Discovery Loop to Automate Science
JeffDean · x · 2026-08-10
Google AI pioneers Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le have co-founded Discovery Loop, a Public Benefit Corporation.
The startup's mission is to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate discoveries and progress. The founding team brings 14 to 30 years of collaboration at Google, having helped build some of the world's most used infrastructure and AI models. Radical VC announced it is co-leading the investment for the launch.
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