{
  "id": 183526,
  "title": "Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving to Launch Discovery Loop",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/googles-top-ai-brains-are-leaving-to-launch-discovery-loop-183526",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-05T16:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Wired",
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    "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/jeff-dean-google-discovery-loop-startup/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Three of Google's top AI scientists are leaving the company to launch a new startup called Discovery Loop. The founders include Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le. Dean explained that the main goal of Discovery Loop is to create automated versions of the scientific method. By running thousands of automated loops, the company aims to make groundbreaking advances in various domains like science, biology, chip design, and AI model improvement. Dean and Ghemawat are among Google's first hires, while Vinyals and Le are technical leaders at DeepMind and Google Brain, respectively. The team developed their idea in just a few weeks and have already attracted investments from top venture capital firms. Despite Google offering them a stake in the company and continued access to resources, the founders decided to leave for the autonomy and freedom a startup provides. Google executives praised the team's expertise and expressed their continued interest in collaborating with Discovery Loop.",
  "summary": "Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to chip design.",
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        "outlet": "Wired Business",
        "title": "Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving to Launch Discovery Loop",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/googles-top-ai-brains-are-leaving-to-launch-discovery-loop",
        "published": "2026-08-05T16:00:00.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "ITP.net",
        "title": "Google AI veteran Jeff Dean leaves to launch Discovery Loop startup",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/google-ai-veteran-jeff-dean-leaves-to-launch-discovery-loop-startup",
        "published": "2026-08-06T06:35:08.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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