Google
Jeff Dean leaves Google for automated science
🧒 Discovery
One of the world's greatest engineers is off to build an AI that helps scientists make discoveries.
📰 Essential
After 27 years, the legendary Jeff Dean leaves to found Discovery Loop, a company aiming to automate scientific research with AI, with Google as an investor.
🔬 Expert
Dean is not leaving alone: Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals, three veteran researchers, are going with him. Discovery Loop is structured as a public benefit corporation targeting medicine, materials and biology, with Google acting as both investor and cloud provider. For Google, it means losing the architect of TensorFlow and Google Brain in the middle of an internal reorganization.