Jeff Dean
Co-founder and CEO, Discovery Loop · as of 2026-10-04 · source
Google's longtime chief scientist (MapReduce, TensorFlow, Gemini co-lead) who left after 27 years in August 2026 to co-found Discovery Loop, a lab automating ML research.
Role changes
- 2026-08-05 Left Google after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation automating ML research source
News mentioning Jeff Dean (4)
- Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le leave Google to found Discovery Loop, a PBC to automate ML research and science ★★★★
On 5 Aug 2026 Google's chief scientist Jeff Dean left after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop (@DiscoLoopAI), a public benefit corporation with Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le. It aims to "automate the experimental loop" (propose, run, evaluate and iterate on experiments), starting…
- Demis Hassabis steps aside as Google DeepMind CEO; Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over, Jeff Dean leaves ★★★★
In early August 2026 Demis Hassabis handed day-to-day control of Google DeepMind to CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu (as SVP reporting to Sundar Pichai), becoming DeepMind chair and Alphabet chief scientist while continuing to lead Isomorphic Labs. Pichai's memo also announced Jeff Dean's departure to found…
- Google DeepMind alignment researcher Alex Turner goes public with his resignation over the Pentagon Gemini deal ★★★
On July 15, 2026 Alex Turner, a scalable-alignment researcher at Google DeepMind, said publicly that he had resigned in June because Google "broke its founding promise by selling AI to the military without restrictions against killer robots or mass spying". He had organized an internal petition to…
- Periodic Labs launches with a $300M seed round to build AI scientists with autonomous labs ★★★
Periodic Labs came out of stealth on 30 Sept 2025 with a $300M seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, one of the largest seed rounds ever. It was founded by Liam Fedus (ex-OpenAI VP of research, ChatGPT co-creator) and Ekin Doğuş Çubuk (who led Google's GNoME materials work). It pairs LLM-based AI…
Posts (3)
- Announcing Discovery Loop original ↗ Jeff Dean @JeffDean · x · 2026-08-05
Google's longtime chief scientist left after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a PBC to automate the ML/scientific experimental loop, taking Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le with him. - The next chapter of our AI momentum original ↗ Sundar Pichai & Demis Hassabis @sundarpichai · blog · 2026-08-05
The official memo that restructured Google DeepMind: Hassabis to chair/chief scientist, Kavukcuoglu to run GDM, Jeff Dean leaving. - Sundar Pichai announces Google DeepMind leadership changes original ↗ Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai · x · 2026-08-05
Google's CEO publicly announced that Hassabis would step up to Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, ending his run as day-to-day CEO.
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