DeepMind veteran departs after 12 years to join Jeff Dean's DiscoLoop AI
mmbronstein · x · 2026-11-03
Arkitus announced his last day at Google DeepMind after nearly 12 years, writing that "we now know how to build AGI, even if we don't fully understand it yet." He is joining DiscoLoop AI next week — the new startup by Jeff Dean, Oriol Vinyals, Sanjay Ghemawat and Quoc Le — to point AI at the discoveries the world needs most.
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