Google loses legendary engineer and DeepMind CEO on the same day: Jeff Dean, one of the company’s most important engineers, creator of large-scale processing systems that allowed the company to index the entire internet, will leave the company after 27 years to found the AI startup Discovery Loop, which will seek advances in areas such as biology, chip design, and drug discovery. Demis Hassabis resigned as CEO, a role he has held since DeepMind’s founding in 2010 (acquired by Google in 2014). He will take on the position of chief scientist at Alphabet, Google’s parent company. The information is from The Decoder website.