Today, it would be easy to make headlines out of Meta Spark 1.2 and Muse Code successfully launching a 5.6-terra-scale model. At the same time, they have also innovated with an agent framework that enables recoverability through local event logs and supports persistent background agents. Both developments should put other agentic coding tool builders on notice.
It would also be easy to focus on Prime Agent—a system built by Prime Intellect on its self-improving RLM framework, which claims an astonishing 95.5% score on ARC-AGI-3 (though ARC has not yet recognized the result).
We tried. We really did.
But it is hard to get around this fact: today’s biggest news is that Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le—some of the most senior engineering and research leaders at Google and in human history—have collectively left DeepMind to co-found a new kind of automated research startup called Discovery Loop:
Jeff Dean announces Discovery Loop on X
I’m incredibly excited to announce that I’m co-founding Discovery Loop (@DiscoLoopAI) with my longtime friends and collaborators @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML, and @quocleix. It is a public benefit company on a mission to automate machine intelligence…
Demis, who needs little introduction, will move from CEO to chairman and chief scientist, while also “increasing support for” Isomorphic. CTO Koray will become senior vice president of GDM (Google DeepMind):
Demis Hassabis announces leadership changes on X
I have dedicated my life to achieving AGI. Now, as we enter this pivotal moment, I will serve as Chairman of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet. This will allow me to focus on long-term strategy and accelerate scientific breakthroughs, including…
All of these departures are entirely amicable; Google is investing in Discovery Loop, and Demis’s focus on long-term strategy—especially increased investment in Isomorphic—will surely be welcomed by humanity as a whole. But we clearly have not been told the whole story: why couldn’t Discovery Loop be built within Google?
At least GDM’s history offers some clues. Gemini papers often have more than 1,000 coauthors, whereas the manifesto below was written jointly by these four “supermen”:
