The Berkeley Overmind, an AI agent built by a UC Berkeley team led by computer science professor Dan Klein, defeated human StarCraft expert Oriol Vinyals for the first time after dozens of test matche…
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…
Shrijith Venkatramana, developer of the AI code review tool LiveReview, explains the concept of loss landscapes in large language models, describing how gradient descent navigates high-dimensional par…
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…
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…
224 Ventures, an AI-focused investment platform with more than $100 million under management, is pursuing seed-stage bets in future-of-work software, robotics, and AI infrastructure, according to gene…
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 …
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…
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…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, which scored within a few points of the most capable model on the Artificial Intelligence Index, has sparked accusations of distillation from US frontier models, but technical a…
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 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…
Jeff Dean, Google's former Senior Fellow and co-founder of Google Brain, left Alphabet on August 5 with three other top researchers—Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals—to launch Discovery Loop…
Google announced that Demis Hassabis is stepping back from running DeepMind to become Chair and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, with Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over day-to-day operations, while Jeff Dean, …
Four top Google DeepMind researchers — Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le — have departed to cofound a new AI research startup, Discovery Loop, which Google is investing in. Demis …
Jeff Dean, Google's longest-serving executive and chief scientist, is leaving the company to launch Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation focused on using AI to accelerate scientific research, …
Four Google AI leaders — Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals — have left Google to found Discovery Loop, a startup aimed at automating scientific research, with Google investing and…
Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist, is leaving the company after nearly 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation aimed at automating the experimental loops of the scientific …
Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le have left Google to co-found Discovery Loop, a Public Benefit Corporation focused on automating machine learning research, with Google as a found…
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…