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Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le announced Discovery Loop…

2026-08-05 · 17:47 UTC ·@GenAI_is_real ·1 min read

Brief

Discovery Loop, founded by Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le and announced 2026-08-05, aims to automate the experimental 'discovery loop' across ML, science and engineering. The post emphasizes Dean and Ghemawat’s MapReduce/Bigtable/TensorFlow infrastructure as enabling large-scale ML, calls Gemini a top model, and frames loop velocity as the central bottleneck.

Why it matters

Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le announced Discovery Loop (DiscoLoopAI), a Public Benefit Corporation, on 2026-08-05; the founders say they’ve worked together for 14–30 years.

Key details

  • The post credits Dean and Ghemawat’s infrastructure (MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow) as the foundation that enabled large-scale machine learning and asserts Google’s Gemini is “among the strongest models in the world today.”
  • Discovery Loop’s stated mission is to automate the experimental/discovery loop across machine learning, science, and engineering to compress ‘loop velocity’—automating the experimental cycle to accelerate discoveries and progress.
Source evidence

hard to overstate what these four have built. the infrastructure jeff dean and sanjay ghemawat created at google - MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow - is quite literally the foundation that made large-scale ML possible for everyone, and gemini is among the strongest models in the world today. now theyre turning that experience toward automating the discovery loop itself. the framing resonates with something ive come to believe deeply: progress is bottlenecked by loop velocity, and automating the experimental cycle is how you compress it. rooting for discovery loop @JeffDean @DiscoLoopAI

Jeff Dean (@JeffDean)

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.

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Learn more at: discoveryloop.com

— https://nitter.net/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724#m