Dean is departing alongside three other Google veterans to build an AI-for-science startup backed by Google as an investor and cloud partner

Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals also departing

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.

Announcing the venture on X, Dean wrote, "We are founding Discovery Loop... a Public Benefit Corporation whose mission is to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to…

Jeff Dean's farewell note to Google runs long, and the most telling part isn't about AI at all. It's a list.