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Google's Chief Scientist Quit After 27 Years to Build a Company That Automates Scientists — and Google Is Funding It
Season 2026
Episode 142
Published 2 months ago
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On August 5th Google DeepMind lost its CEO and its chief scientist on the same day. Demis Hassabis moved out of the DeepMind CEO seat to become Alphabet's chief scientist and DeepMind's chairman, while Jeff Dean left after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation whose product is the automation of machine-learning and scientific research itself. Alphabet is a founding investor and its cloud provider, and Alphabet shares fell about four percent on the day.
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