Quoc Le is a senior AI researcher who spent years at Google working on Gemini as one of four co-leads. In 2024, he departed Google alongside Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, and Oriol Vinyals to co-found Discovery Loop, a startup developing AI systems to automate and accelerate scientific research through recursive self-improvement, with initial backing from investors including Alphabet, Khosla Ventures, and Radical Ventures.
Updated 8 August 2026
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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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[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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Q3 2026
- Google's Mind Is Now Less Deep
- Four Top Google AI Researchers Form New Start-Up
- Discovery Loop Launches as Independent Company
- [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”
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- Founded by Discovery Loop · 3 sources
- Employed by Google · 2 sources
- Discovery Loop founded by this person · 1 source