Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le found Discovery Loop to automate ML and science
JeffDean · x · 2026-10-09
Jeff Dean announced Discovery Loop (@DiscoLoopAI), a Public Benefit Corporation founded with longtime collaborators Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le, whose mission is to automate machine learning, science and engineering to accelerate discoveries.
- The four have worked together for 14 to 30 years and built some of the world's most used products, infrastructure and AI models
- Princeton CS professor Sanjeev Arora, on leave, just joined and will work on AI-accelerated scientific discovery
- It's Jeff Dean's first startup
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