Four of Google's Top AI Researchers Just Left to Start One Company. Alphabet Is Investing in It.
Why would a company fund the start-up its own top researchers are leaving to build?
Overview
Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG)(NASDAQ: GOOGL) said Wednesday that Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist and a 27-year veteran of the company, is leaving. And he isn't leaving alone.
Sanjay Ghemawat, a Google senior fellow and Dean's engineering partner of more than two decades, is going with him. So are Oriol Vinyals, a co-lead of the company's Gemini models, and Quoc Le, a founding member of the Google Brain team.
Details
The four are starting Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation that plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) to automate scientific and engineering research. Investors treated the news as a loss. Shares of the search giant fell about 4% Wednesday, erasing about $185 billion of market value.
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