# Jeff Dean Leaves Google to Automate the Scientific Method With Discovery Loop

> Jeff Dean, who spent 27 years at Google and helped build much of its core infrastructure and AI research, is leaving to co-found a startup called Discovery Loop. He is not going alone, the founding team reportedly includes Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le, a lineup of names that reads like a hall of fame for large-scale computing and deep learning. The company's ambition is to automate the scientific method itself, building AI systems that run the full loop of experimental research, forming hypotheses, testing them and learning from results, across fields like machine learning, drug discovery and chip design. Google is not walking away entirely either, it is a founding investor and cloud partner supplying the compute. The departure is striking for who is leaving and why. When one of the most respected engineers of his generation bets his next chapter on AI-run science rather than bigger chatbots, it says something about where the frontier is heading. The interesting race may soon be less about models that talk and more about models that discover.

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## Wortins' read

Jeff Dean, who spent 27 years at Google and helped build much of its core infrastructure and AI research, is leaving to co-found a startup called Discovery Loop. He is not going alone, the founding team reportedly includes Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le, a lineup of names that reads like a hall of fame for large-scale computing and deep learning. The company's ambition is to automate the scientific method itself, building AI systems that run the full loop of experimental research, forming hypotheses, testing them and learning from results, across fields like machine learning, drug discovery and chip design. Google is not walking away entirely either, it is a founding investor and cloud partner supplying the compute. The departure is striking for who is leaving and why. When one of the most respected engineers of his generation bets his next chapter on AI-run science rather than bigger chatbots, it says something about where the frontier is heading. The interesting race may soon be less about models that talk and more about models that discover.

## 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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