Announcing Discovery Loop

Jeff Dean's thread of 5 Aug 2026 announces Discovery Loop (@DiscoLoopAI), a Public Benefit Corporation co-founded with Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le. Its mission is to automate machine-learning research and, later, other science and engineering. A follow-up tweet (2085035498222002595) says the approach is "to automate the experimental loop", starting with ML research and engineering. Google is a founding investor and cloud partner, according to Pichai's memo. This was announced alongside Hassabis stepping aside. Verified via syndication (JeffDean, 2026-08-05T16:06:02Z, ~21.7k likes). Discovery Loop now has its own entry (2026-08-05-discovery-loop-founded).

Announcing Discovery Loop!

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.

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Learn more at: http://www.discoveryloop.com

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