Jeff Dean leaves Google to found AI startup Discovery Loop
Dean, Google's chief scientist for 27 years, co-founds the company with Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals. Backed by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures — with Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, and Doerr Capital — it plans to automate complete experimental loops to accelerate science and engineering; Alphabet will take a stake.
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