Discovery Loop

Discovery Loop aims to automate experimental discovery by executing thousands of experiments in parallel and closing the loop from results back into model retraining and hypothesis generation. The company positions itself to make AI act as the researcher, initially using its automation to refine its own machine-learning algorithms before expanding into chip design, drug discovery, biology and materials. It is structured as a public benefit corporation. The founding team comprises veteran systems and ML researchers Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals. Discovery Loop closed a seed round reported at over $100 million with leading investors including Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures, and counts Google/Alphabet as a founding investor and cloud partner that will supply compute resources in year one.