Oriol Vinyals, until recently head of research at Google DeepMind, said AI self-improvement will accelerate research by a factor of ten but will not trigger a sudden intelligence explosion, citing two…
Radical Ventures' portfolio page now lists Jeff Dean as CEO of Discovery Loop, an AI research venture he co-founded with Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals, resolving the ambiguity from its A…
Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro flagship model missed its June 2026 launch date, and the company has since lost key AI leaders, including chief scientist Jeff Dean, Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer, and DeepMind C…
Anthropic released the Model Hardware Standard, a framework of rules for how AI agents should safely interact with physical systems such as microscopes, liquid-handling equipment, quantum computing ha…
Alphabet shares fell 4.03% on 5 August, wiping roughly $186 billion (£138 billion) from market value, after Jeff Dean left Google after 27 years with three senior AI researchers to launch Discovery Lo…
Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures co-led an undisclosed initial funding round for Discovery Loop, the AI research startup founded by Jeff Dean and three Google veterans, with participation from Kle…
A new analysis from FutureSearch forecasts that six 'neolabs'—Safe Superintelligence, Thinking Machines, Reflection AI, Ineffable Intelligence, Discovery Loop, and AMI Labs—will not achieve superintel…
Jeff Dean, former Google senior fellow, left the company after 27 years to found Discovery Loop, a four-person AI startup focused on automating science and engineering, and said at a Stanford Universi…
On 5 August 2026, Google DeepMind ended its founder-led era as Demis Hassabis stepped back to Chairman and Alphabet Chief Scientist, Koray Kavukcuoglu became SVP reporting directly to Sundar Pichai wi…
Jeff Dean left Google on 5 August 2026 after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation automating the scientific method, backed by Google as a founding investor. Google DeepMin…
Jeff Dean, former Google AI leader, raised $1 billion in seed funding for Discovery Loop at a $10 billion valuation to automate scientific discovery. The company aims to build a generalized system tha…
Google announced Gemini 3.7 Flash, its most intelligent workhorse model for coding and agents, priced at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, matching its predecessor Ge…
Jeff Dean, who spent 27 years at Google, is in talks to raise $1 billion at a valuation of about $10 billion for his new AI startup, Discovery Loop, according to people familiar with the matter. The c…
Alphabet announced on August 5 a leadership restructure at Google DeepMind, with co-founder Demis Hassabis stepping down as CEO to become Chair and Chief Scientist, and Koray Kavukcuoglu, formerly CTO…
Alphabet Inc. shares dropped roughly 4% after CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Demis Hassabis is stepping down as head of Google DeepMind to become Chair and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, with Koray Ka…
Kevin Weil, former chief product officer of OpenAI, has sought a valuation of at least $750 million for his new AI science startup, aiming to raise $150 million in the round, according to three people…
Jeff Dean, Google's former chief scientist and 30th employee, left the company last week to cofound AI startup Discovery Loop, and he detailed his final two days at Google at the KDD Conference in Jej…
Four former Google researchers — Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals — left Google in August 2026 to launch Discovery Loop, a company betting that the fastest route to superintellig…
Google announced on August 5th a complete overhaul of DeepMind leadership, with co-founder Demis Hassabis stepping back from day-to-day operations and former Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean leaving t…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced executive changes across its AI units as the company accelerates investments in AI, while Jeff Dean, a 27-year veteran and co-leader of the Gemini effort, is leaving…