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Why Jeff Dean says he left Google after 27 years to build a 4-person AI startup
Jeff Dean says he left Google to build an AI startup partly because smaller teams can be more effective.
TL;DR
- Jeff Dean left Google after 27 years to start his own AI company, Discovery Loop.
- He believes smaller startups can achieve accelerated innovation due to the availability of cloud compute.
- Discovery Loop will focus on science and engineering automation.
- The company aims to automate the process of proposing, implementing, running, and evaluating scientific experiments.
- Discovery Loop plans to address some of the world's major scientific and engineering challenges.
- The startup has secured initial funding from prominent venture capital firms and has Alphabet as a founding investor and cloud partner.