Google chief scientist Jeff Dean leaving in AI reshuffle after 27 years at company
The stealth startup has backing from Khosla Ventures, Radical Ventures and Google, and it aims to automate scientific discovery for small teams.
- On Wednesday, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat announced they are leaving Google after 27 years to launch Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation focused on accelerating scientific and engineering discoveries.
- Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed Google will invest in the startup and provide compute power for the first year, though he attempted multiple meetings to retain the departing engineers.
- Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and Radical Ventures led the funding, backing the team's vision to automate research rather than simply using AI as a tool for Humans. "Humans have been using AI to do research, not using AI to be a researcher," Khosla said.
- Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is moving to a chairman role, while Koray Kavukcuoglu, currently DeepMind CTO, assumes day-to-day leadership of the AI division and will lead Gemini 4 development.
- Operating in stealth without hired staff or office space, Discovery Loop's founders aim to build systems capable of out-inventing large research organizations through deep automation of the discovery process.
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(San Francisco = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kwon Young-jeon = Chief Scientist Jeff Dean, known as a 'legend' within Google, has decided to leave the company and start a business.
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The Alphabet, Google's controller, announced on Wednesday (5) a profound reformulation in the leadership of its artificial intelligence division. Demis Hassabis will leave his main management position, while several Gemini model leaders, including veteran engineer Jeff Dean, are leaving the company. The restructuring takes place at a crucial time for the Google DeepMind laboratory, because the latest version of his Gemini model remains unlaunche…
The startup idea that convinced a UW computer science legend to leave Google after 27 years
Jeff Dean, who earned his computer science Ph.D. at the University of Washington, is leaving Google after 27 years and taking three of the company's top AI researchers with him. Their startup, Discovery Loop, aims to automate the scientific method itself, and Google is helping fund it.
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