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5 things to know about Jeff Dean's new startup
Jeff Dean was Google's 30th employee. Now, after decades at the search giant, he's leaving to cofound an AI startup called Discovery Loop.
TL;DR
- Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist, is leaving after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, an AI startup.
- Discovery Loop aims to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate discoveries and progress, focusing on complex scientific challenges.
- The startup is backed by prominent venture capital firms including Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures, with Alphabet as a founding investor and cloud partner.
- Dean is a key figure in Google's history, having contributed to Search, Ads, Translate, and co-founding the Google Brain team, as well as developing the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU).
- Other key leaders joining Dean include Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le, all with significant backgrounds in AI and systems research.