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Jeff Dean's Discovery Loop in Talks to Raise Again at ~$50B Valuation, Up From $10B Weeks Ago

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Summary

Business Insider reports Jeff Dean is raising again for Discovery Loop, the AI research automation startup he founded with fellow Google veterans Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals — seeking a valuation of around $50B just weeks after being reported at $1B on a $10B valuation. The startup aims to build AI that autonomously proposes and runs experiments, starting with self-improvement of AI itself.