Google’s Chief Scientist Jeff Dean—Google’s 30th employee, with approximately 27 years of service—stepped down amid DeepMind’s restructuring and co-founded the public benefit corporation Discovery Loop. His collaborators in this venture include Google Senior Engineer Sanjay Ghemawat, Google Brain Core Researcher Le Guo, and DeepMind Senior Research Scientist Oriol Vinyals. The company is committed to harnessing AI technology to expedite the scientific research process. It aims to achieve this by developing advanced AI systems capable of automating the entire experimental workflow, thereby overcoming the iterative bottlenecks inherent in traditional scientific research. To date, Discovery Loop has garnered support from organizations such as Alphabet, with its inaugural funding round co-led by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures, and involving multiple institutions. The founding team emphasized that AI will increasingly concentrate on the discovery domain, accelerating advancements in scientific research and engineering, and swiftly delivering the benefits of transformative technologies.