Dean will launch a new research company called Discovery Loop alongside Google veterans Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le. Noam Shazeer OpenAI Last remaining Attention Is All You Need co-author at Google and a key architect behind transformer AI. But frontier AI is unusual because relatively few people have repeatedly produced breakthroughs that reshape the field. Alphabet's cloud business continues growing rapidly while frontier AI research demands enormous investments in computing infrastructure with uncertain financial returns. Discovery Loop, Google's own spinout, shows that even Google increasingly sees value in smaller, focused research organizations alongside its internal AI efforts.