Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals name their new company Discovery Loop

Sources: primary, discussion
Summary: A company page went live naming Discovery Loop with Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals as founders. The page states the agenda in two sections, "The Approach" and "Mission": building systems that automate entire experimental loops using frontier AI models and large-scale compute, an initial focus on automating machine learning research and engineering, the company acting as its own first customer to optimize its own stack, and National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges as the eventual target. The page states no funding and no corporate structure.
Why it matters: The stated first application is the company's own stack, so the near-term output is internal machine learning research and engineering automation rather than a product.