Discovery Loop, co-founded by Jeff Dean, is backed by seed funding from Radical Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and others; Google also has a stake in the company (Cade Metz/New York Times)

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/google-researchers-ai-startup.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3FA.mlf-.8hYfKBMJEvf7&amp;smid=url-share"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260805/i28.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260805/p28#a260805p28" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Cade Metz / <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/">New York Times</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/google-researchers-ai-startup.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3FA.mlf-.8hYfKBMJEvf7&amp;smid=url-share">Discovery Loop, co-founded by Jeff Dean, is backed by seed funding from Radical Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and others; Google also has a stake in the company</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Jeff Dean, who for years was one of Google's most important executives, is leading the new artificial intelligence company with the backing of Google.</p>