Jeff Dean, a core leader of Google's early AI strategy, is set to depart and will co-found Discovery Loop, a public-benefit startup focused on scientific discovery, alongside Google veterans Oriol Vinyals, Yue Qiu, and Sanjay Ghemawat. Dean will serve as CEO. The company aims to accelerate technological development by automating complex scientific research and engineering tasks. This move further intensifies Google's recent trend of AI talent attrition.