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1. xtreak29 · 1785946536 · focus · HN ↗

   <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xcancel.com&#x2F;JeffDean&#x2F;status&#x2F;2085034604172603724" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xcancel.com&#x2F;JeffDean&#x2F;status&#x2F;2085034604172603724

   &gt; Announcing Discovery Loop!

   &gt; I am very excited to announce that, along with my longtime friends and collaborators @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML and @quocleix, we are founding Discovery Loop (@DiscoLoopAI), a Public Benefit Corporation whose mission is to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate discoveries and progress. The four of us have worked together for 14 to 30 years, and have helped build some of the world’s most used products, infrastructure and AI models, and we’re excited to turn our attention to this ambitious endeavor.

   1. throwaw12 · 1785948047 · focus · HN ↗

      Is Jeff also leaving Google?

      I am sure VCs are fighting to invest and they will get 4B investment immediately with this team

      1. compiler-guy · 1785948418 · focus · HN ↗

         They are leaving Google, but Google is an investor in the new company. So a split, but not exactly a divorce. Or something.
      2. colesantiago · 1785948450 · focus · HN ↗

         &gt; I am sure VCs are fighting to invest and they will get 4B investment immediately with this team

         This is probably the only time some prominent VCs would be active during August, only for Jeff Dean &amp; Co&#x27;s company.

         I can see them now frantically negotiating, responding and firing off emails right now during their holidays to get an allocation in Jeff&#x27;s new company.

      3. tcp_handshaker · 1785949048 · focus · HN ↗

         Would love to hear the pitch: We never had the lead in AI and now definitely lost it, despite the gazillions dollars and engineering resources of Google, but now will be different?

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