Discovery Loop seeks $1 billion raise at $10 billion valuation

Odaily News: Sources reveal that Discovery Loop, an AI startup founded by former Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean, is in talks to raise $1 billion at a valuation of approximately $10 billion. Specific terms of the funding round are still subject to change.

Discovery Loop aims to accelerate discovery in science and engineering through automated machine learning, science and engineering, and parallel execution of thousands of experiments. Its initial funding was led by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures, with participation from Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, and Doerr Capital, while Alphabet serves as founding investor and cloud services partner. The founding team of Discovery Loop also includes former core Google researchers such as Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals. (businessinsider)