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Jeff Dean and three other Google execs are leaving to launch Discovery Loop, which will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in drug discovery, chip design, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)
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Jeff Dean and three longtime Google collaborators are leaving to found Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation that aims to automate discovery across machine learning, science, and engineering.
Four senior technical leaders departing simultaneously removes deep institutional knowledge from Google's AI and systems organizations at a moment when the company is also reshuffling DeepMind leadership. For engineers, the people who built foundational Google infrastructure now believe the next high-impact work happens outside large tech, specifically in automating the research process itself.
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Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le are co-founding Discovery Loop as a public benefit corporation.
The startup's mission is to automate the process of discovery and progress in ML, science, and engineering, including drug discovery and chip design.
Khosla Ventures is backing the venture, and Sundar Pichai stated Google will support it.
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