Jeff Dean, Google's longtime chief scientist and employee number 30, has left the company along with fellow veterans Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le to co-found Discovery Loop, a public benefit AI startup backed by Alphabet.
Oratomic, a startup founded by Caltech physicists, has raised $300 million in a Series A funding round to develop a utility-scale quantum computer. The company uses lasers to hold atoms for its quantum computing approach, which it claims requires fewer qubits for error correction than previously thought.
AI law startup Norm announced a $120 million Series C funding round led by Khosla Ventures, valuing the company at $1.2 billion. Norm Law uses AI agents supervised by human attorneys to offer legal services, charging based on outcomes.
