# Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat Launch Discovery Loop to Automate Scientific Discovery

> Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat are two of the most consequential engineers in Google's history, the pair behind foundational systems like MapReduce and, more recently, much of the company's AI research direction. After 27 years, they are leaving to start Discovery Loop, a company built around a simple but ambitious premise: that the core cycle of research, proposing an idea, running an experiment, and evaluating the result, can itself be automated. They are not going alone. The founding team includes Oriol Vinyals, a technical lead on Gemini, and Quoc Le, a Google Brain co-founder known for automating parts of model design. The seed round is co-led by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures, with Google itself supplying computing power. The plan is to start where the founders have the deepest expertise, machine learning research, then widen the loop toward science more broadly. The move is notable both for the talent involved and for what it signals. Some of the people who helped build modern AI now believe the most valuable use of that AI is to accelerate discovery itself, turning the scientific method into something closer to a running program.

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## Wortins' read

Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat are two of the most consequential engineers in Google's history, the pair behind foundational systems like MapReduce and, more recently, much of the company's AI research direction. After 27 years, they are leaving to start Discovery Loop, a company built around a simple but ambitious premise: that the core cycle of research, proposing an idea, running an experiment, and evaluating the result, can itself be automated. They are not going alone. The founding team includes Oriol Vinyals, a technical lead on Gemini, and Quoc Le, a Google Brain co-founder known for automating parts of model design. The seed round is co-led by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures, with Google itself supplying computing power. The plan is to start where the founders have the deepest expertise, machine learning research, then widen the loop toward science more broadly. The move is notable both for the talent involved and for what it signals. Some of the people who helped build modern AI now believe the most valuable use of that AI is to accelerate discovery itself, turning the scientific method into something closer to a running program.

## Source

[Read the full story at Unite.AI](https://www.unite.ai/jeff-dean-leaves-google-to-automate-the-scientific-method-with-discovery-loop/)

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