Jeff Dean Leaves Google After 27 Years For AI Startup
Google is backing the startup as a founding investor and cloud partner while Discovery Loop begins with machine-learning research.
- Jeff Dean, Google's longtime chief scientist, is leaving after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a Palo Alto-based startup aimed at automating the iterative cycle of scientific and engineering research.
- These departures coincide with a broader leadership reorganization at Google DeepMind, where Demis Hassabis is stepping back to become unit chairman and Alphabet's chief scientist, while Koray Kavukcuoglu is elevated to senior vice president.
- Alphabet shares fell roughly 4% following the announcements, representing an estimated $160 billion to $200 billion in market value. Dean joined as roughly the 30th employee in 1999 and helped "drive some of the most significant technology transitions."
- Google is backing Discovery Loop as a founding investor and cloud partner, while Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures co-lead the seed round. This follows exits including Nobel laureate John Jumper's move to Anthropic, a departure Google has not disputed.
- Discovery Loop plans to initially focus on automating machine-learning research before expanding into drug discovery and clean energy. "Particularly in a lot of domains, you can fully computerize that whole loop," Dean said, describing faster, higher-quality research.
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One of the most prominent figures in the modern tech world is leaving. Jeff Dean, Google's longtime chief scientist and architect of many of the technologies that underpin the internet and the current wave of artificial intelligence, is leaving the company after 27 years. He is founding a new startup, Discovery Loop, with three other top experts. Investors, however, have taken the news with trepidation.
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