[Former Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean's New Company in Talks for $1 Billion Funding, Valuation Reaches $10 Billion] According to monitoring by Beating, the AI startup Discovery Loop, founded by Jeff Dean, is in discussions for approximately $1 billion in funding, targeting a valuation of around $10 billion. The deal has not yet been finalized, and specific terms are still subject to change. Discovery Loop was founded by four former core Google technologists: Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals. The company aims to enable AI to autonomously propose experiments, run experiments, and iterate based on the results, initially to improve AI itself and later to expand into chip, pharmaceutical, and materials research. [Original Article Link]