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An opinion piece expressing skepticism about Discovery Loop, an AI research startup founded by former Google AI leaders, arguing that automating ML research differs fundamentally from automating scientific/engineering tasks and questioning their unique advantage while acknowledging they deservedly raised funding.
Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist, is leaving after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, an AI research company aiming to automate the research cycle. The startup has seed funding from Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures, with Alphabet as a founding investor and cloud partner.
Jerry Liu likens the founding of Discovery Loop by Jeff Dean and collaborators to an 'AGI version of the PayPal Mafia', highlighting the launch of a new AI Public Benefit Corporation by prominent Google alumni.
Jeff Dean and longtime collaborators announce the founding of Discovery Loop, a Public Benefit Corporation aimed at automating scientific and engineering discovery with AI, after leaving Google.
Top Google AI researchers Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le are leaving Google to found Discovery Loop, a startup focused on automating scientific and engineering loops to advance AI and other fields.