On August 5, chief AI scientist Jeff Dean announced he was leaving Google after 27 years. Google proceeded to lose ~$180 billion in market cap, making this the largest impact I’ve ever seen by one employee departing.
He’s co-founding Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation aimed at using AI to automate the scientific research process itself. He’s bringing Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le with him. Alphabet is a founding investor and cloud partner.
That is the most decorated founding team in the history of applied machine learning. Every venture firm on Sand Hill Road would take that meeting and commit on 30 minutes’ notice at…
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