Jeff Dean

“Phinity Labs builds AI agents to design, verify, and prepare custom chips for manufacturing, raised a $5.2 million seed round... with Moxxie and Jeff Dean also chipping in.”

“uses neural activity from rat brain cells to improve AI video-generation models, raised an additional $25 million extension”

“raising at $10 billion, now raising at $50 billion”

“You have Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals' new lab... obviously these are like incredibly senior people with like decades of experience.”

“Angels including Jeff Dean and Fei-Fei Li participated in the Trajectory round”

“Trajectory raised a $40M Series A, Sequoia-led with Bessemer and Radical Ventures. Angels include Jeff Dean and Fei-Fei Li.”

“Google's efforts so far are B plus, A minus. They're not A plus... you could look at it and say whatever Google was doing wasn't quite working... They've kind of got a model out there, but they haven't made any impact whatsoever in coding.”

“I think Vinod's leading the round, right? Or co-leading the round or something. So he's just redoing. He already, granted, OpenAI hasn't gone public, but he's already had a little bit of a win here, right? That guy, Vinod, right? So he's just doing the playbook again.”

“It must be extraordinarily validating, if you're Jeff Dean, to leave as a non-CEO of a two or three trillion dollar market cap public company and have the stock go down by a couple of hundred billion dollars.”

“The latest high-profile example is Jeff Dean, who left Google to start Discovery Loop.”

“After the departure of DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis... and Gemini co-lead and former Chief Scientist Jeff Dean, along with a host of other prominent researchers, SemiAnalysis declared that Gemini is Cooked.”

“Jeff Dean is starting an agent lab right now from Google.”

“Google announced its chief scientist Jeff Dean was leaving after 27 years to start his own company.”

“Engineer Jeff Dean is also departing to launch a startup.”

“Chief scientist Jeff Dean, a 27-year Google veteran, is leaving to launch Discovery Loop.”

“Jeff Dean is leaving his role as chief scientist of Google DeepMind to form a new startup along with three other top Google AI colleagues.”

“P-1 AI is building engineering intelligence for designing complex physical systems—an attempt to push AI beyond code generation into real-world engineering work. A $50M Series A led by NEA, with Radical Ventures and a stacked angel bench including Jeff Dean and Peter Welinder.”

“Jeff Dean has this famous set of numbers that every programmer should know, bandwidths and latencies and just kind of relevant constants you use to reason about it as you build systems.”

“Jeff Dean: Renowned computer scientist; former Google Senior Fellow and Google AI lead. Angel investor in P-1 AI's $50M Series A — his participation signals credibility for AI applied to physical engineering systems.”

“Jeff Dean argues that the mainstream assumption that agents break down after 10-30 steps is outdated. The real frontier is multi-day or multi-week autonomous runs on genuinely complex tasks.”

“Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind. Creator of MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow, TPUs, and a key figure in Gemini development.”

“Google's frontier model family. Cited specifically as a beneficiary of distillation techniques — the Flash model is distilled from the larger Pro model, producing best-in-class benchmark performance at its size/speed tier.”

“Would you rather hire that person and not hire people who are medium engineers but not Jeff Dean level with the same amount of budget you have?”

“Every core file in Google's infrastructure — from Google File System to MapReduce to Bigtable — had Jeff Dean or Sanjay Ghemawat as the first author.”

“The deal was led by Conviction, with Bessemer Venture Partners, Radical VC, BoxGroup, Jeff Dean, and Fei-Fei Li also anteing up”

“Personal investor in Trajectory's $15M seed round — a strong technical signal of confidence”