DeepMind veteran of 12 years departs to join Jeff Dean's new startup DiscoLoopAI
ammaar · x · 2026-11-03
Ali announced his last day at Google DeepMind after nearly 12 years, having joined to help understand intelligence and build AGI. He argues "we now know how to build AGI, even if we don't fully understand it yet."
Next week he joins DiscoLoopAI alongside Jeff Dean, Oriol Vinyals, Sanjay Ghemawat and Quoc Le, aiming to point AI at the discoveries the world needs most.
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