Jeff Dean is an American computer scientist who spent 27 years at Google, where he led much of its AI research. In this corpus he appears at the moment he leaves to found Discovery Loop with Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le: a public benefit corporation whose experiment loops are to begin by improving their own algorithms, the newsletter’s clearest case of senior researchers leaving a frontier lab to build the loop directly.
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Jeff Dean
Senior Google AI researcher who, after 27 years at the company, left with three colleagues to found Discovery Loop and automate the scientific method itself.
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