Jeff Dean Leaving Google

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 aimed at automating machine learning, science, and engineering. Dean will be joined by longtime collaborators Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le, who together have worked for 14 to 30 years on some of the world's most used products and AI models. The new company will initially focus on ML research and engineering, with plans to hire a founding team and secure office space.

Announcing Discovery Loop I am very excited to announce that, along with my longtime friends and collaborators @Sanjay Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML and @quocleix, we are founding Discovery Loop @DiscoLoopAI , a Public Benefit Corporation whose mission is to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate discoveries and progress. The four of us have worked together for 14 to 30 years, and have helped build some of the world’s most used products, infrastructure and AI models, and we’re excited to turn our attention to this ambitious endeavor. ♾ Learn more at: discoveryloop.com Our general approach is to automate the experimental loop. We think this approach is broadly applicable across many different fields of science and engineering. We’ll initially focus on ML research and engineering, but believe the approach can help with important subproblems in We created a pitch deck to tell a handful of VC firms about us and what we were up to a fun experience . Here’s a few slides about our background and some of the things we’ve worked on from the pitch deck it was fun putting together the list of people in our teams who have Our immediate order of business is to find office space, and hire an amazing founding team over the next few weeks. We want to create an awesome environment with a great culture of technical excellence, teamwork, respect, and ambition. We’ll also start building our