Oriol Vinyals
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Founded 224 Ventures Founded Discovery Loop
Oriol Vinyals is a senior Google AI researcher who co-led Gemini and was among four prominent Google/DeepMind figures reported to be leaving the company. In the coverage, Vinyals helped launch Discovery Loop, an independent startup backed by multiple investors and supported by Google’s collaboration on computing resources, with the aim of automating self-improving AI research and experimental discovery loops. He is also identified as co-leading 224 Ventures, a $100M AI fund that invests in early-stage AI startups.
Updated 20 September 2026
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Latest developments
Four Top Google AI Researchers Form New Start-Up
The New York Times · 1 month ago ·
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Discovery Loop Launches as Independent Company
discoveryloop.com · 1 month ago ·
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Yann LeCun joins new $100M AI fund, weeks after his last one lasted 8 hours
Tech Funding News · 1 month ago ·
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[AINews] Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol, and Quoc depart DeepMind; Demis to Chair; Koray to SVP — what is going on at GDM???
Latent Space · 1 month ago ·
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Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup
TechCrunch · 1 month ago ·
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Google’s four AI departures: “We wanted to build something differently”
The New Stack · 1 month ago ·
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Yann LeCun joins new VC firm backed by 244 LPs
Sifted · 1 month ago ·
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2026
Yann LeCun joins 224 Ventures, a new $100 million AI-focused venture fund Funding
- Google's Mind Is Now Less Deep
- Four Top Google AI Researchers Form New Start-Up
- Discovery Loop Launches as Independent Company
- Yann LeCun joins new $100M AI fund, weeks after his last one lasted 8 hours
- [AINews] Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol, and Quoc depart DeepMind; Demis to Chair; Koray to SVP — what is going on at GDM???
- Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup
- Google’s four AI departures: “We wanted to build something differently”
- Yann LeCun joins new VC firm backed by 244 LPs
Relationships
People
- Founded by Discovery Loop · 3 sources
- Employed by Google · 2 sources
- Employed by DeepMind · 1 source
- 224 Ventures founded by this person · 1 source
- Discovery Loop founded by this person · 1 source
Investment & ownership
- Owns 224 Ventures · 1 source
- Invests in 224 Ventures · 1 source