Ali Eslami leaves Google DeepMind after 12 years to join Jeff Dean's DiscoLoopAI
arkitus · x · 2026-11-03
Ali Eslami announced his departure from Google DeepMind after nearly 12 years, saying "we now know how to build AGI, even if we don't fully understand it yet." He's joining DiscoLoopAI next week alongside Jeff Dean, Oriol Vinyals, Sanjay Ghemawat and Quoc Le, aiming to point AGI at the discoveries the world needs most. His DeepMind tenure spanned GQN, Gemini and AI Mode.
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