Quoc Le
Researcher · Founder
Now Founder, Discovery Loop
Latest on AI4S.fyiFunding · Sep 11 · founderDiscovery Loop · Round (unnamed) · Amount not reported (in talks)Account links back to scholar.google.com · Avatar from their X account, taken 2026-09-28
Affiliations
Current
- Founder · Discovery Loop
Also named in the companies' announcements: Google Brain
Current roles come from these dated records, not from the bio below. Each links the page it was read from.
About
Quoc Le is one of four co-founders of Discovery Loop. His Stanford page lists him as a research scientist at Google from 2013, after a PhD at the Stanford AI Lab advised by Andrew Ng; he did his undergraduate studies at the Australian National University. Discovery Loop credits its founding team with work including sequence-to-sequence models, word2vec and neural architecture search.
Read on 2026-09-29; for current roles see Affiliations above. Read at: ai.stanford.edu ↗ · discoveryloop.com ↗
Selected work
- Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks ↗
An encoder-decoder network that maps one sequence to another, tested on machine translation.
Also on this record: Oriol Vinyals
Each byline was read on the paper itself. Only people on this record are named, not the full author list, and a shared byline does not say who did which part.
Founded
Discovery LoopScience models and AI scientists · 2026 · 2 rounds on record · Round (unnamed) Amount not reportedBackground: Google Brain (as the company's own announcements put it)
Co-founders: Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals
Backed byRadical VenturesKhosla Ventures
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