Jeff Dean and three Google veterans form AI-for-science startup with Google's backing
Google will invest in and provide cloud services to Discovery Loop, while Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over Google DeepMind's daily operations from Demis Hassabis.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: CNBC
Why it matters
Google is losing four veteran researchers while retaining investment and cloud ties to their new company, as responsibility for Google DeepMind's daily operations and Gemini roadmap passes to Koray Kavukcuoglu.
Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) is leaving Google (@Google) after 27 years to form Discovery Loop with Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le, according to CNBC's report on the August 5th reshuffle. Discovery Loop is being organized as an independent public-benefit corporation focused on using machine learning in science and engineering.…
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