Discovery Loop is an AI research lab founded in August 2026 by four former Google leaders — Jeff Dean (CEO), Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals. The company builds AI systems designed to automate the entire scientific experimental loop: the AI proposes a hypothesis, runs thousands of experiments in parallel, learns from the results, and iterates recursively — with little or no human intervention required. The first target is automating machine learning research itself, using AI to accelerate its own improvement. From there, the plan is to expand into physical-world domains: drug development, materials design, chip engineering, and clean energy. Buyers are expected to be enterprise R&D teams, research institutions, and government labs. Structured as a Delaware public benefit corporation, the company is legally required to weigh public benefit alongside financial returns — a deliberate choice to attract mission-driven talent and enable partnerships with academic and government science organizations. Alphabet is a founding investor and cloud compute partner.