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Discovery Loop Reportedly Seeks $50 Billion Valuation Weeks After $10 Billion Round
Discovery Loop, the AI startup founded by ex-Google researchers including Jeff Dean, is pursuing a new funding round at about $50 billion valuation, a rapid leap from roughly $10 billion earlier this year as investor demand surges. Terms are not yet confirmed, and there is no guarantee the deal will close at that valuation, with the company operating as a public-benefit corporation.
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About Jeff Dean
Jeffrey Adgate Dean is an American computer scientist and software engineer. He is best known for his work at Google, which he joined in 1999. He led Google AI from 2018 to 2023 and was Google's chief scientist from 2023 to 2026. Dean co-founded the AI research start-up Discovery Loop in 2026.
Everything about Jeff Dean →- Occupation
- computer scientist, software engineer, artificial intelligence researcher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- July 1968, July 23, 1968
- Website
- https://research.google/people/jeff/