Google veterans Ghemawat and Dean leave to launch AI startup

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Google veterans Sanjay Ghemawat and Jeff Dean have left the company to co-found Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation focused on automating scientific and engineering experiments with artificial intelligence. The venture will be backed by Alphabet as a founding investor and cloud partner.

Ghemawat, who grew up in Kota, Rajasthan, joined Google in 1999 and helped build Google File System, MapReduce, Bigtable and Spanner. Dean worked with him on several of these systems and later led AI research. Times Now News reports Dean’s resignation after 27 years, while The Times of India and The Economic Times focus on Ghemawat’s departure. Former Google researchers Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le are also joining the startup.

The Indian Opinion

The easy story is that Google is losing its best minds, while the opposing claim is that any new AI venture will quickly transform science. Both go beyond the evidence. Ghemawat and Dean have deep records in distributed computing, but automating experiments requires reliable systems, useful results and responsible oversight. Discovery Loop’s progress should be judged by the number and quality of experiments it completes, not by founder prestige or investor enthusiasm.

Sources (3): economictimes.indiatimes.com, timesnownews.com, timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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