The company is called Discovery Loop, and Dean isn’t building it alone. Discovery Loop’s own framing of its mission matches Dean’s YC talk almost sentence for sentence. Their bet is that this entire loop can be handed over to AI systems that propose, run, and evaluate experiments on their own, at a speed and scale no human research team could match. That’s a notably narrow and specific pitch for a company founded by four of the most cited researchers in AI and distributed systems. Whether Discovery Loop can actually deliver on a loop that runs “many, many experiments” at low latency is the open question now, and one that will take actual products to answer rather than slide decks.