FOUR TOP GOOGLE AI RESEARCHERS FORM NEW START-UP

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Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals have left Google to start a company called Discovery Loop. The team aims to build AI that can improve itself with little or no help from humans. Google plans to collaborate with the new startup and has agreed to provide the computing power it needs to build its AI technologies for at least the next year. Discovery Loop will operate as a public benefit corporation.