India, Aug. 5 -- Jeff Dean, most recently the Chief Scientist at Google, has left the company to co-found a new AI venture with Google as its principal investor. The company announced on Wednesday that Dean is departing after 27 years at the company.

According to a Google statement, the name of the company Dean will co-found is Discovery Loop. It is an independent public benefit company that automates scientific engineering research using AI. Three other top Google executives, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le have also departed the company to join Discovery Loop. They have collaborated in different capacities in the last 15 to 20 years at Google, reports indicate.

The departures of the executives led by Jeff Dean, raised doubt...