People & DiscourseJeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, Oriol VinyalsJeff DeanQuoc V. LeOriol Vinyals

Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals found Discovery Loop

Announced the founding of Discovery Loop, Inc., a Delaware public benefit corporation that aims to automate the entire loop of science and engineering experiments — co-led by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures, with Alphabet participating

Why it matters

A major talent move in which iconic figures of Google's infrastructure join the wave of new labs promising to automate scientific discovery with AI

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Officialwsgr.comhttps://www.wsgr.com/en/insights/wilson-sonsini-advises-discovery-loop-on-launch-and-initial-funding.html

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