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DeepMind Leadership Shuffle; Discovery Loop Founded

Senior DeepMind researchers Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le have left Google DeepMind to found Discovery Loop, a Public Benefit Corporation focused on automating machine learning and scientific discovery. Demis Hassabis is moving to Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet to focus on long-term strategy, while Koray Kavukcuoglu is stepping into operational leadership as SVP of DeepMind. Google/Alphabet and several venture firms are reported to be backing the new venture. The moves are described as amicable and signal a major reorganization of DeepMind leadership alongside a high-profile AI spinout and seed funding round.

Google Expands AI, Faces Talent Exodus

Google is accelerating its AI and cloud push while navigating a major leadership reshuffle and an exodus of senior researchers. The company reported 82% cloud revenue growth as it seeks to align DeepMind with Google Cloud for enterprise use cases and balance investments in data centers, chips and model development. Demis Hassabis will step back from day-to-day DeepMind leadership to become Chair of DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, while Koray Kavukcuoglu will take operational control of Gemini and frontier research reporting to Sundar Pichai. Jeff Dean is leaving after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a public-benefit startup focused on automating the scientific method that closed a seed round with Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures; Alphabet will be its initial cloud provider. Internal tensions persist over TPU allocation and commercializing TPU sales to cloud customers such as Anthropic.

AWS partners with Superblocks to embed vibe coding

Superblocks, a vibe-coding startup, announced a multiyear joint marketing agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to allow its tool to be embedded inside customers' private AWS clouds. The integration ensures apps built with Superblocks run inside an enterprise's AWS account (spinning up Amazon Aurora databases) and can integrate with Amazon Bedrock, keeping data inside corporate cloud environments. AWS will also assist in selling Superblocks via its partner channels. Superblocks has about 50 employees and had raised $60 million at Series A (announced May 2025), backed by Spark Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Meritech Capital and Greenoaks. The deal is an example of hyperscalers pushing enterprises to run AI/agentic tooling and orchestration inside their clouds to avoid data leakage and vendor lock-in.