From left: Oriol Vinyals, Sanjay Ghemawat, Jeff Dean and Quoc Le.
Discovery Loop wants to advance the pace of scientific discovery using AI to address issues across domains.
Chief scientist Jeff Dean is leaving Google after a 27 year-long stint to start a new company called Discovery Loop that wants to accelerate research using AI.
Alphabet and Radical Ventures are backing the business as founding investors alongside funding from Khosla Ventures.
The founding team at Discovery Loop also includes Dean’s other departing colleagues; senior fellow Sanjay Ghemawat, research vice-president at DeepMind Oriol Vinyals and research scientist Quoc Le.
