Jeff Dean and three Google researchers launch Discovery Loop for automated research
Google will take an equity stake and provide first-year compute as the founders use Discovery Loop to improve machine-learning systems.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Wired
Why it matters
Discovery Loop concentrates decades of Google systems and AI experience around self-improving research software, while Google's investment lets it retain exposure to work leaving its own labs.

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean), Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le have left Google to launch Discovery Loop, an AI research operation built to automate the repetitive cycle of proposing, running, and evaluating experiments, [Wired reported on August…
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