Four top Google AI minds, including Jeff Dean, are leaving to launch Discovery Loop, a groundbreaking startup focused on revolutionizing fields like drug discovery and chip design.

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…

Google parent company Alphabet on Wednesday announced a leadership overhaul of its AI division, with AI chief Demis Hassabis leaving his main managerial role and as several…

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