Departing Google chief scientist Jeff Dean has been in talks for a $10 billion valuation for his new AI startup

Jeff Dean, head of artificial intelligence at Google LLC, speaks during a Google AI event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. Bloomberg/Getty Images Jeff Dean left Google last week to start Discovery Loop, a new AI company. He has been in talks to raise $1 billion dollars at around a $10 bil

Google's former chief scientist Jeff Dean shared an hour-by-hour timeline of his last two days at Google at the KDD 2026 conference in Jeju. It covers an emotional video call breaking the news to 139 close colleagues, a farewell party 1,500 people crashed, a 2:30 AM scramble to answer 400 disappearing chat messages, an