Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat Exit Google to Launch Discovery Loop as Hassabis Steps Back at DeepMind
Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat and two other senior Google researchers left within a single week to found rival startup Discovery Loop, while Demis Hassabis stepped back from day-to-day DeepMind leadership. Alphabet shares fell, even as the company chose to invest in the new venture rather than treat the exits as a pure loss.
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