Jeff Dean创业BP曝光，杨植麟也在上面！硅谷VC抢破头送钱

TL;DR - Jeff Dean's new startup Discovery Loop circulated a famously minimal 3-page pitch deck (credentials, team scale, citation rankings, plus casual team photos) and has already secured funding from top Silicon Valley VCs. It matters as a signal that "AI for automating research itself" is now a top-tier funding thesis backed by Google's most senior infrastructure and ML leaders.

• Founding team is Jeff Dean, Oriol Vinyals, Quoc Le, and Sanjay Ghemawat — spanning Google Search/Ads/Gemini/TPU products, GFS/MapReduce/Bigtable/Spanner/TensorFlow/Pathways infrastructure, and research like Word2Vec, Seq2Seq, MoE, distillation, and AlphaFold.
• Stated mission is automating ML, science, and engineering via a "automated experiment loop": AI proposes hypotheses, runs many experiments in parallel, and auto-adjusts the next round; initial focus is ML research/engineering, later possibly chips, drug discovery, and other sciences.
• Confirmed investors include Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures (co-leads), Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, and Doerr Capital; Alphabet also invested and signed a long-term cloud compute agreement. Axios sources cite a "hundreds of millions" round, not officially confirmed.
• The deck's alumni list highlights researchers who trained under this group, including Moonshot AI's Yang Zhilin (Transformer-XL, XLNet, later Kimi's long-context work) and xAI founding member Zihang Dai.