Jeff Dean is leaving Google after 27 years with Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le to found Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation aiming to automate the scientific method itself — running thousands of autonomous experiment loops that begin by improving their own algorithms before graduating to chips, biology and materials.
Demis Hassabis, telling staff AGI feels close at hand, handed over day-to-day control of DeepMind.