Jeff Dean

Do whatever you want, because, uh... [laughs]

Boys, moving swiftly on, what, what would we like to do next? Jeff Dean's company hitting $50 billion after just raising it 10.

We've got Citrini selling his company to Dylan Patel and Sammy Analysis for 100.

We've got OpenAI pausing pro signups.

Hinton also concerned that AI will eventually replace jobs like paralegals, personal assistants, and other quote-unquote "drudge work," and potentially more in the future.

Google's chief scientist, Jeff Dean, said in a statement that Google appreciated Hinton's contributions to the company over the past decade.

Quote, "I've deeply enjoyed our many conversations over the years.

I'll miss him and I wish him well.

As one of the first companies to publish AI principles, we remain committed to a responsible approach to AI.

We're continually learning to understand emerging risks while also innovating boldly." Toby Walsh, the chief scientist at the University of S- New South Wales AI Institute, God, that's a mouthful there, said, "People should get...

They should be questioning any online media they see now." Again, this was three years ago.

Three years ago.

It has also said the tools don't attribute comments to specific named individuals and that summaries may omit potentially sensitive materials such as financial information, personal identifiers, and authentication data." [upbeat music] And finally today, an interesting raise because I feel like these folks could quickly become another major player.

Sources say Jeff Dean is raising funds again for Discovery Loop, seeking a valuation of around fifty billion dollars.

Discovery Loop was raising one billion dollars at around a ten billion dollar valuation just a few weeks ago.

Quoting Business Insider, "Jeff Dean, the legendary engineer who resigned as chief scientist from Google last month, is raising again for his new AI startup, Discovery Loop, this time seeking a valuation of around fifty billion dollars, according to people familiar with the matter.

It was only a few weeks ago that Discovery Loop was raising one billion dollars at around a ten billion dollar valuation, Business Insider reported.

But in this white-hot fundraising market where VCs' voracious appetite for top AI talent such as Dean is matched only by the enormous expense of building an AI lab, it seems it is never too soon to raise funding again.

And this is especially hard because it's changing every three to four months.

For example, like Jeff Dean from Google said, like, and I think in a podcast with Dr. Sputter, he said that new models are coming that are going to like produce 10,000 tokens per second, right? So my mind goes that, hey, if that's coming, what do I need to do now so that I don't go rebuild my software after four to five months, right? And the reason I know that is because I'm always in the weeds because I truly care about AI.

If you're just a software engineer or an AI engineer building agents, you're not going to have that perspective.

Because, you know, we always on Twitter, you need to always kind of, I think social media is super weird now, but I think it is because of Twitter that I know what I know.

AI Startup Discovery Loop is seeking a new funding round at a valuation of around $50 billion, according to Business Insider, just weeks after the company emerged from stealth at a $10 billion valuation.

The startup is linked to Jeff Dean, the longtime Google AI leader, and has drawn intense investor interest despite disclosing few details about its underlying technology.

The rapid jump in valuation, if I imagine if it holds, would rank among the fastest markups for any AI startup this year.

It also highlights how eager investors remain to bet on new ventures tied to proven AI research talent, even without a public product or a clear business model.

Meta's own chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, one of the actual godfathers of AI, left the company back in November after 12 years, saying that his vision for AI research had gone fundamentally incompatible with where Meta's leadership wanted to go with AI.

Jeff Dean, who was Google's chief scientist, left with three senior researchers last month to start their own AI company.

And even an Anthropic researcher quit this week, specifically citing fear that Anthropic and its rivals are racing toward technology it won't- Ultimately be able to control.

More about Anthropic later in this episode.