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▶ 0:25 · $DISCOVERY-LOOP · Radical Ventures backs Discovery Loop: strongest AI founding team ever pursuing recursive self-improvement
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Why the World’s Best AI Researchers Just Left Google

2026-08-06 · 4 company · 6 thematic
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rob toth

Partner at Radical Ventures, an AI-focused venture capital firm. He led the firm's investment in Discovery Loop, a startup founded by former Google AI leaders Jeff Dean, Oriol Vinyals, Sanjay Ghemawat, and Quoc Le.

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“it really is like a Honestly, I think possibly objectively the strongest founding team for an AI startup ever... founders that are kind of incapable of not being wildly successful and and you know, pursuing one of the biggest markets in th…”
—rob toth
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