Oriol Vinyals
Co-founder and CTO, Discovery Loop · as of 2026-10-04 · source
Seq2seq and AlphaStar researcher and Gemini technical co-lead; left Google DeepMind in August 2026 to co-found Discovery Loop.
Role changes
- 2026-08-05 Left Google DeepMind to co-found Discovery Loop source
News mentioning Oriol Vinyals (2)
- 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…
- Sequence-to-sequence learning and neural attention ★★★★
Sutskever, Vinyals and Le's seq2seq (LSTM encoder–decoder) and Bahdanau, Cho and Bengio's attention mechanism, both posted in September 2014, made end-to-end neural machine translation work.
Posts (1)
- 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.
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