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 has diluted its competitive advantage by fragmenting its AI offerings under multiple experimental labels, including Gemini, instead of integrating AI seamlessly into its core search and Workspa…
Canva cut its 2026 growth forecast from 30% to 20%, a move that 20VC x SaaStr hosts Jason Lemkin and Rory O'Driscoll say signals an existential threat to the prosumer design tool as AI agents bypass i…
A LatePost investigation based on interviews with nearly ten Chinese AI researchers and practitioners reveals that model distillation, a technique for compressing or improving AI models by training a …
Google reorganized its AI division, Google DeepMind, last week, with chief scientist Jeff Dean leaving to form a new startup and DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis stepping aside to focus on long-term …
Google DeepMind CEO and cofounder Demis Hassabis is stepping back from the CEO role to become chair, with CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over day-to-day control, while chief scientist Jeff Dean is also …
AI News Digest for Aug 13 reports 30 AI stories, including Anthropic's potential $6 billion acquisition of Decart, Lovable's $13.3 billion valuation after a $400M raise, and Gemini reaching 1 billion …
Jeff Dean, a prominent figure in AI research, is reportedly seeking a $10 billion valuation for his new startup, a figure that has sparked debate about whether it is justified in the current market. S…
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…
Demis Hassabis stepped down as head of DeepMind, and Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le—three of the four leads of Gemini—left Google to found a startup focused on recursive self-i…
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…
A group of researchers including Jeff Dean, John Hennessy, and David Patterson published a paper in Communications of the ACM titled 'Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives,' arguing that focused ef…
Model distillation, a technique introduced in Geoffrey Hinton's 2015 paper 'Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network,' trains a smaller student model to mimic a larger teacher model's full probabi…
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…
Trajectory, a San Francisco-based AI lab focused on continual learning, has reportedly raised funding from Sequoia Capital at a $300 million valuation, according to The Information, though the claim i…
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 DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO to become chief scientist and chairman, with CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over day-to-day operations as senior vice president, a leadersh…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, is stepping down to become chairman, while CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will take over day-to-day operations as …