Sanjay Ghemawat
Co-founder, Discovery Loop · as of 2026-10-04 · source
Google Senior Fellow behind MapReduce, GFS, Bigtable and Spanner; co-founded Discovery Loop with Jeff Dean in 2026.
Role changes
- 2026-08-05 Left Google to co-found Discovery Loop source
News mentioning Sanjay Ghemawat (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…
- 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…
Posts (2)
- 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.
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