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Jeff Dean

Jeff Dean founded Google Brain (2011) and Discovery Loop (2026), and previously worked at Google and DEC.

American computer scientist and software engineer

2× founder Artificial Intelligence 2011–2026
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Companies founded by Jeff Dean

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2011
Google BrainDefunct Co-founder · Artificial Intelligence
2026
Discovery LoopPrivate Founder · Artificial Intelligence

Co-founders

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Andrew Y. Ng
Co-founded Google Brain
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Greg Corrado
Co-founded Google Brain
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Oriol Vinyals
Co-founded Discovery Loop
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Quoc Le
Co-founded Discovery Loop
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Quoc Viet Le
Co-founded Discovery Loop
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Sanjay Ghemawat
Co-founded Discovery Loop

Came from

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Where Jeff Dean worked or built before — the roots of the lineage.

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Google Public
Software & IT · USA
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DEC Private

Also came from Google

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Abraham Bachrach
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Adam Bry
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Adrian Graham
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Aidan N. Gomez
British-Canadian computer scientist (born 1996/97)
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Amit Sangani
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Andrej Karpathy
Czechoslovak-born AI researcher (born 1986)
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Andrew Boni
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Andrew Conrad
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Andrew Ofstad