Co-founder of Discovery Loop · ex-VP of Research, Google DeepMindCo-founder of Discovery Loop · ex-VP of Research, Google DeepMind
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Born in Chile, raised in Catalonia, Spain. Earned a BS from UC Berkeley, MS from UC San Diego, and PhD from UC Berkeley (2016) under Nelson Morgan. Joined Google Brain and later DeepMind. Co-invented the sequence-to-sequence model (2014, with Sutskever and Quoc Le), one of the architectures that led to modern LLMs. Led AlphaStar (2019), the AI that defeated top StarCraft II players. Was VP of Research at Google DeepMind, co-leading Gemini development. His contributions span NLP, computer vision, and game AI. In August 2026 he left Google DeepMind to co-found Discovery Loop with Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat and Quoc Le.
Born in Chile, raised in Catalonia, Spain. Earned a BS from UC Berkeley, MS from UC San Diego, and PhD from UC Berkeley (2016) under Nelson Morgan. Joined Google Brain and later DeepMind. Co-invented the sequence-to-sequence model (2014, with Sutskever and Quoc Le), one of the architectures that led to modern LLMs. Led AlphaStar (2019), the AI that defeated top StarCraft II players. Was VP of Research at Google DeepMind, co-leading Gemini development. His contributions span NLP, computer vision, and game AI. In August 2026 he left Google DeepMind to co-found Discovery Loop with Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat and Quoc Le.