The Big Tech Brain Drain Just Claimed Its Biggest Name Yet
If you've followed artificial intelligence over the past two decades, you know the name Jeff Dean. He isn't just another senior executive shuffling spreadsheets in Mountain View. He helped architect MapReduce, Bigtable, and TensorFlow. He built the computational foundation that Google runs on today.
And now, he's walking out the door.
Dean is leading a high-profile exodus of top researchers from Mountain View to start an independent company focused on using machine learning to accelerate scientific discovery. He isn't going alone. A team of senior scientists from