Discovery Loop, a new AI research company founded by Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals, announced its mission to automate scientific and engineering discovery using frontier AI mo…
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind to focus on AGI as Chair of GDM and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, with Koray Kavukcuoglu, former CTO,…
Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le have left Google to launch Discovery Loop, an AI research startup focused on automating the cycle of proposing, running, and evaluating experimen…
Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist and a key figure in the development of TensorFlow and other AI technologies, announced he is leaving Google to co-found Discovery Loop, a Public Benefit Corporation…
Google chief scientist Jeff Dean is leaving his role after 27 years at the company as part of a reshuffle of its AI divisions announced on Wednesday. Dean, who has been a key figure in Google's AI res…
Google's chief scientist, Jeff Dean, has departed after 27 years to launch a new AI firm, marking another high-profile exit from Big Tech as elite AI talent increasingly bets on themselves. The positi…
Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Demis Hassabis will become Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, while Koray Kavukcuoglu will step up as SVP of Google DeepMind…
Alphabet announced a leadership overhaul of its AI division, with Demis Hassabis stepping down as Google DeepMind CEO to become chairman and Alphabet's chief scientist, while Koray Kavukcuoglu takes o…
Google's chief scientist Jeff Dean, along with Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le, have left Google after nearly 27 years to found Discovery Loop, a startup focused on automating the scientif…
Google announced on August 5 that Demis Hassabis will step down as day-to-day leader of Google DeepMind to become its chair and Alphabet's chief scientist, while Koray Kavukcuoglu will take over as se…
Google is in talks to pay over $1.5 billion for Mechanize, a startup that trains AI agents to write code, according to Business Insider. The deal, valued at close to $2 billion, would license Mechaniz…
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison told Startup School 2026 attendees that new business creation is running at twice last year's rate, citing Stripe's own data on the AI economy. Collison, who co-founded Str…
Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean said at Y Combinator's Startup School 2026 that AI models have reached the capability of junior engineers, a prediction he made in May 2025, and predicted that by 2027…
Y Combinator's Startup School drew over 6,000 attendees to San Francisco's Chase Center for a two-day conference featuring AI executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Meta'…
Infrastructure automation startup SkyPilot Inc. launched today with $20 million in seed funding led by Lux Capital, with participation from Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi, Google chief scientist Jeff Dean,…
Google is reportedly developing a server chip called 'Frozen v2' that hardwires parts of its Gemini AI model architecture into silicon, aiming to cut inference costs by producing six to 10 times as ma…
SkyPilot emerged from stealth on July 21 with a $20 million seed round led by Lux Capital, backed by personal checks from Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi, Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, Hugging Face CEO …
Elorian, a Palo Alto-based startup building visual-reasoning AI, has raised $55 million in seed funding at a $300 million post-money valuation before shipping a product. The round was co-led by Strike…
Andrew Dai, a former DeepMind researcher, raised $55 million in seed funding at a $300 million post-money valuation for his visual AI startup Elorian AI, which aims to build AI systems that reason nat…
A former Google DeepMind employee resigned after the company signed a military AI deal with the Pentagon that lacked restrictions against killer robots and mass surveillance, despite internal efforts …