Jeff Dean quits Google to build Discovery Loop, AI for scientific discovery
After 27 years at Google, Jeff Dean is leaving alongside Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le to launch Discovery Loop, a public‑benefit AI startup. The company will use AI to automate thousands of experimental loops, aiming to speed breakthroughs in fields from drug discovery to chip design, while Google takes a minority stake.