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Jeff Dean and Colleagues Launch Discovery Loop

Four former Google researchers found a public benefit corporation to automate machine learning and science.

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Jeff Dean announced the founding of Discovery Loop with Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le. The public benefit corporation's mission is to automate machine learning, engineering, and science. Google will serve as a founding investor and cloud partner. Khosla Ventures is also backing the venture. The four researchers are leaving Google after careers that included work on Brain, TensorFlow, TPUs, and Gemini. Discovery Loop's website states it builds AI systems to automate the experimental loops of science and engineering.

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Four former Google researchers found a public benefit corporation to automate machine learning and science.

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Jeff Dean announced the founding of Discovery Loop with Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le. The public benefit corporation's mission is to automate machine learning, engineering, and science. Google will serve as a founding investor and cloud partner. Khosla Ventures is also backing the venture. The four researchers are leaving Google after careers that included work on Brain, TensorFlow, TPUs, and Gemini. Discovery Loop's website states it builds AI systems to automate the experimental loops of science and engineering.

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@StevenLevyHere's a shattering Jeff Dean fact: Google's top scientist, along with Sanjay Ghemawat and 2 other top AI researcher are leaving Google to form Discovery Loop, a startup that hopes to automate the scientific method so AI can create breakthroughs in multiple fields. https://www.wired.com/story/jeff-dean-google-discovery-loop-startup/

@vkhoslaWe are excited to back @JeffDean, @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @quocleix, and @OriolVinyalsML as they build what’s next at Discovery Loop. They have spent decades pushing the frontiers of AI research and infrastructure from Google Brain to TensorFlow to TPUs. The next great frontier for AI isn’t just improving productivity or replacing workers, it’s expanding humanity’s capacity to research and discover. This team can redefine how research in engineering and science is done. If successful, the impact won’t be measured in software features, or benchmarks but in new science to improve billions of lives. Those are the kinds of opportunities - bold, early and impactful - that Khosla Ventures gets excited about backing. The impact could be as large as when we backed @sama at @openai in 2018. So excited to venture assist them on this project to build great impact. http://www.discoveryloop.com

@vitaliychileyThankful for the legends 🐐 We’ll carry this flame forward Excited for your next adventure. @JeffDean @quocleix @OriolVinyalsML @Sanjay_Ghemawat

@OriolVinyalsMLThirteen years ago, a quick email exchange with @JeffDean brought me to @Google. After an unforgettable journey from Brain, to DeepMind, and to @GoogleDeepMind, working on seq2seq or distillation, and co-leading huge projects such as AlphaStar, and Gemini, I'm saying goodbye to GDM. The best part? The same person who brought me in is challenging me to take the next leap. Excited to build Discovery Loop (@DiscoLoopAI) alongside @JeffDean, @quocleix, and @Sanjay_Ghemawat Deeply grateful to everyone who made GDM feel like home. Time to try something new and to keep it drastic! ✨♾

@JeffDeanAnnouncing Discovery Loop! I am very excited to announce that, along with my longtime friends and collaborators @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML and @quocleix, we are founding Discovery Loop (@DiscoLoopAI), a Public Benefit Corporation whose mission is to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate discoveries and progress. The four of us have worked together for 14 to 30 years, and have helped build some of the world’s most used products, infrastructure and AI models, and we’re excited to turn our attention to this ambitious endeavor. ♾ Learn more at: http://www.discoveryloop.com

@quocleixExcited to co-found Discovery Loop with my long-time collaborators @JeffDean @Sanjay_Ghemawat @OriolVinyalsML . Our mission is to automate machine learning, engineering and science. Learn more at: http://www.discoveryloop.com ♾

@sundarpichaiI also want to give a huge thanks to the incomparable @JeffDean after an incredible 27-year run at Google. He’s off to start his own public benefit corporation with @Sanjay_Ghemawat focused on accelerating discoveries across ML, science, & engineering. @Google will support as a founding investor and Cloud partner. On a personal note, it’s been a privilege to work with Jeff and Sanjay, and I wish them all the best. Thank you for everything!

@MikeIsaacbig news in googleland from @CadeMetz @JeffDean to depart with top colleagues and launch his own startup focused on A.I. recursive self improvement https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/google-researchers-ai-startup.html

@rakyllRT @Sanjay_Ghemawat: I am excited to announce that I, along with my long-time colleagues (@JeffDean, @OriolVinyalsML, @quocleix), are found…

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