Sanjay Ghemawat, the Google scientist who grew up in Kota, Rajasthan, is leaving the company after nearly three decades. Ghemawat helped build key technologies including Google File System, MapReduce and Bigtable. He is now joining Jeff Dean and other former Google researchers to launch AI startup Discovery Loop, which aims to use AI to automate scientific and engineering experiments and potentially run thousands of experiments at once.

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.

Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist and AI pioneer, reportedly founded Discovery Loop, an AI startup targeting drug discovery and 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.