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Jeff Dean's Discovery Loop Targets $50B Valuation in AI-Driven Science Push
business28 days ago

Jeff Dean's Discovery Loop Targets $50B Valuation in AI-Driven Science Push

Former Google chief scientist Jeff Dean is raising capital for his AI startup Discovery Loop, aiming for about a $50 billion valuation after an earlier round at $10 billion; the company intends to accelerate scientific and engineering discovery by parallelizing thousands of experiments, led by Google veterans and backed by top venture firms including Radical Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, and Doerr Capital, with Alphabet as a founding investor; terms may change and there’s no guarantee of funding.

via Business Insider|
#ai-startup#business#discovery-loop
Jeff Dean's New AI Startup Seeks $10B Valuation With Big Backers
technology1 month ago

Jeff Dean's New AI Startup Seeks $10B Valuation With Big Backers

Former Google AI chief Jeff Dean is in talks to raise about $1B at a roughly $10B valuation for Discovery Loop, a startup that aims to automate machine learning and scientific discovery through parallel experimentation; the round is led by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures with participation from Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, and Doerr Capital, with Alphabet as a founding investor and a team of veteran Google researchers guiding the effort.

via Business Insider|
#ai-startup#discovery-loop#google-exec
Jeff Dean’s Hour-by-Hour Google Exit Signals a Leap to Discovery Loop
technology1 month ago

Jeff Dean’s Hour-by-Hour Google Exit Signals a Leap to Discovery Loop

Business Insider details Jeff Dean’s emotional, hour-by-hour farewell from Google as he leaves to launch his AI startup Discovery Loop, including an early-morning staff video call, a 1,500‑person farewell, yoga and a soccer game that evening, a flood of messages through the night, and finally the “Unemployed” timestamp before becoming cofounder of Discovery Loop and planning a Stanford fireside chat.

via Business Insider|
#ai#discovery-loop#exit
Jeff Dean Unveils Discovery Loop Pitch Deck to Push AI Breakthroughs
technology2 months ago

Jeff Dean Unveils Discovery Loop Pitch Deck to Push AI Breakthroughs

Jeff Dean, Google’s longtime chief scientist, revealed slides for his new AI startup Discovery Loop, highlighting the founders’ Google-built successes (Search, Ads, Gmail, Gemini, TPUs) and a plan to automate the experimental loop in AI research, with Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals aboard; initial funding is led by Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures, with Alphabet participating.

via Business Insider|
#ai-startup#discovery-loop#google
Jeff Dean departs Google after 27 years as AI leadership reshuffle unfolds
technology2 months ago

Jeff Dean departs Google after 27 years as AI leadership reshuffle unfolds

Google announced a major AI leadership reshuffle: longtime chief scientist Jeff Dean is leaving after 27 years to start his own company, Discovery Loop, with Google investing in it; Demis Hassabis will become chairman of DeepMind and chief scientist of Alphabet, while Koray Kavukcuoglu is promoted to head of the AI division and will oversee the Gemini 4 development. The move signals Google’s ongoing push in AI amid competition with OpenAI and Anthropic, as cloud growth remains a focus and capital expenditures rise; Alphabet shares fell about 4% on the news.

via CNBC|
#deepmind#demis-hassabis#discovery-loop
Google AI Pioneers Quit to Launch Discovery Loop
technology2 months ago

Google AI Pioneers Quit to Launch Discovery Loop

Several of Google’s top AI leaders, including Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le, are leaving Google to found Discovery Loop, a public-benefit startup that will pursue AI-driven, automated scientific discovery across domains such as biology, drug design, chip design, and materials. Google will take a stake and provide compute for a year, while investors like Vinod Khosla and Radical Ventures back the venture. The team aims to develop autonomous machine-learning loops that could become the core AI researcher for multiple fields, signaling a notable shift in the AI research landscape.

via WIRED|
#ai-startup#automated-scientific-method#discovery-loop
Google AI Chief Urges UW Graduates to Shape Responsible Innovation
technology3 months ago

Google AI Chief Urges UW Graduates to Shape Responsible Innovation

Jeff Dean, Google’s chief scientist and UW alumnus, returned to the university’s Allen School to address graduates, saying AI should accelerate human ingenuity—not replace it, and urging students to design safeguards, focus on meaningful problems, and apply their fresh perspectives across industry; he reflected on his path from UW in the 1990s to leading Gemini AI at Google and highlighted AI’s potential to advance healthcare, education, and disaster forecasting.

via GeekWire|
#artificial-intelligence#commencement#google