‘Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving to Launch Discovery Loop’
Steven Levy, writing for Wired: Today it’s official: After almost 27 years, Dean is leaving Google, along with Ghemawat and two other top-tier AI scientists, to found a company called Discovery Loop . Even though Google will take a stake in the new company, it’s a devastating blow to the search giant as it attempts to keep pace in the frantic AI model competition. It’s bad enough that Dean and…
According to Steven Levy's report for Wired, Google’s top AI researchers Dean, Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le have decided to leave the company and form a new venture named Discovery Loop. The departure of these highly skilled professionals, who were among Google's earliest hires, signifies a significant loss for the search giant as it competes in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.
The group includes Vinyals, a VP of research at DeepMind and a Gemini technical lead, as well as Le, a co-founder of Google Brain and the architect behind Google’s AutoML-Zero. The founders revealed that the idea for the new company only emerged a few weeks prior to its announcement, and they were united by their shared belief in AI's potential to automate scientific and engineering processes.
This unexpected exodus could mark a turning point for Google, akin to a situation where Mick Jagger and Keith Richards left the Rolling Stones to start a new band.
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