谷歌首席科学家Jeff Dean在任职27年后离职，创办AI公司Discovery Loop，旨在自动化机器学习研究、科学和工程流程，加速发现与进步。该公司将先聚焦自动化机器学习研究，再拓展至硬件设计、药物发现和清洁能源领域。Radical Ventures和Khosla Ventures领投种子轮，Alphabet作为创始投资方和云合作伙伴，将为其提供至少一年的算力支持。
Google's chief scientist is leaving after 27 years to build AI that can run its own research cycle with little human help.
Jeff Dean was employee 30, and he wrote the storage and computing systems that showed the rest of the industry how to serve a global audience.
He also started Google Brain in 2011 and drove the TPU units. His new firm is called Discovery Loop, after the cycle it wants to automate, which is hypothesis, then experiment, then evaluation of the result.
Dean says whole domains can be computerized that way, so you get more experiments and better ones out of the same year.
It begins by automating machine learning research itself, before moving toward hardware design, drug discovery and clean energy.
Joining him are Sanjay Ghemawat, his collaborator of two decades, plus Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals from the Brain and Gemini years.
Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures are co-leading a seed round that is not yet closed, and Alphabet came in as founding investor and cloud partner.
Alphabet will supply their computing power for at least a year, so the four keep frontier-scale hardware without paying to build it.
Google shares fell about 4% on the news.
Announcing Discovery Loop! I am very excited to announce that, along with my longtime friends and collaborators @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML and @quocleix, we are founding Discovery Loop (@DiscoLoopAI), a Public Benefit Corporation whose mission is to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate discoveries and progress. The four of us have worked together for 14 to 30 years, and have helped build some of the world’s most used products, infrastructure and AI models, and we’re excited to turn our attention to this ambitious endeavor. ♾ Learn more at: http://www.discoveryloop.com在 X 查看被引用的帖子
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