Leadersby GlyphOriol Vinyals
Joins Discovery Loop as Co-founder · Aug 5, 2026 · News
Why, in the source's words
Coming with him as co-founders are several other top researchers at the company, including Sanjay Ghemawat, a top engineer and senior fellow at Google; Quoc Le, a key AI researcher and founding member of Google Brain; and Oriol Vinyals, a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind.
Also at these companies
Sanjay Ghemawat joins Discovery LoopCo-founder, from Google · TechCrunchQuoc Le joins Discovery LoopCo-founder, from Google · TechCrunchKoray Kavukcuoglu promoted at 
DeepMindSVP of Google DeepMind · Google Blog
Jeff Dean joins Discovery LoopCEO, from Google · TechCrunch
Demis Hassabis promoted at AlphabetChair of GDM and Chief Scientist of Alphabet · Google Blog
John Jumper joins 
AnthropicDirector, AlphaFold Lead, from DeepMind · TechCrunch
About this move
- Type
- Appointed
- Role
- Other
- Announced
- Aug 5, 2026 3 months ago
- Effective
- Not stated
- Source
- TechCrunch
- Checked
- Found by the daily agent, approved by hand