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Oriol Vinyals leaves Google DeepMind to build Discovery Loop

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Oriol Vinyals announced he is leaving Google DeepMind after thirteen years, a journey that began with an email exchange with Jeff Dean and ran through Brain, DeepMind, seq2seq and distillation work, and co-leading projects including AlphaStar and Gemini. He says he is building Discovery Loop (@DiscoLoopAI) alongside Jeff Dean, Quoc Le and Sanjay Ghemawat.

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