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Jeff Dean is leaving Google after almost 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a startup set up as a public benefit corporation that aims to automate the scientific method through repeated AI-driven experiment loops. He is joined by Sanjay Ghemawat, DeepMind VP of research and Gemini technical lead Oriol Vinyals, and Google Brain cofounder Quoc Le, with Dean as CEO. The company plans to be its own first customer, first improving its machine learning algorithms before generalizing to chip design, biology, drug discovery and materials design. Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures led funding alongside other firms, with amount and valuation undisclosed; Radical's Jordan Jacobs joins the board. Google is a founding investor and Cloud partner and will supply compute for the first year. Dean said the idea emerged only weeks earlier, and he had hinted at it on July 25 at Y Combinator's Startup School.

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