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ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered one Discovery Loop release so far: Discovery Loop (company founding) on Aug 5, 2026. Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le leave Google to found Discovery Loop. The entry below has primary-source links, key numbers and the episode where we covered it live.

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Discovery Loop (company founding)

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

Four of Google's most legendary engineers left in one morning to found Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation automating the experimental loop in ML, science, and engineering, with Google as founding investor and Cloud partner. The same morning, Demis Hassabis stepped down as Google DeepMind CEO to become Chair of GDM and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, with Koray Kavukcuoglu taking Gemini as SVP. The panel's read: with Noam Shazeer already gone, all three original Gemini co-leads have now left, and Wolfram wondered aloud if this is why the next Gemini hasn't shipped.

27 years Jeff Dean's tenure at Google950M+ monthly Gemini app users cited in Pichai's memo