Today, G5 Labs is emerging from stealth with $14 million in seed funding to build a new abstraction layer for AI-native software development. @pillar_vc and @BatteryVentures co-led the round, with participation from @omegavp , Encoded Ventures, and prominent angel investors including @JeffDean . G5 Labs is pioneering the post-developer era. A spinout from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the G5 Labs platform makes natural-language intent, organized as an ontology, the source code itself—putting software development in the hands of the whole organization while providing the governance needed to keep requirements, implementation, and organizational policies aligned. We’re excited to build a future where employees across departments, from product owners to analysts and compliance leads, can create and evolve software using the language they already speak. Read our full announcement: Read more in VentureBeat:

Introducing OM-1, our first robot foundation model, zero-shot generalizing to any robot: table-top arms, industrial arms and humanoids. - learned directly from human manipulation data - no teleop/robot data - close to human-level dexterity and efficiency - multi-robot collab

Stanford HAI's fall conference returns this October. Confronting Our AI Future: Hope, Fear, and the Choices Ahead will feature a full day of conversations on work, learning, governance, and how we ensure AI expands human potential. Speakers include @drfeifei, @JeffDean, @audreyt, @erikbryn, Alondra Nelson, and @istoica05, with more to be announced. Register by October 1 for early bird pricing:

Today, we're excited to share early progress on using Gemini to accelerate scientific discovery in the real-world. We present an extension of Co-Scientist which we use to collaborate with scientists across materials science, biology, and computer science.

Behind a lot of great AI projects, there is a good @JeffDean story. Here is mine 😉 Back in 2019, even before Khipu AI officially existed, Jeff said yes to participate in our first event in Uruguay 🇺🇾. His early belief in our LATAM AI vision created a ripple effect—if @JeffDean was in, everyone was in. Incredibly grateful he returned for Khipu 2025 in Chile 🇨🇱! As we look ahead: Khipu 2027 is heading to BRAZIL 🇧🇷 Applications are OPEN: Want to sponsor us and support Latin American AI? DM me or reach out at sponsorship@khipu.ai Check out the video below to see what Khipu is all about (and spot a quick Jeff cameo 😉). 👇 #Khipu2027# #Khipu_AI# #MachineLearning# #LatAm#

Indeed, it has been quite a week, so I thought I'd share it with the KDD 2026 audience! For my Google colleagues who might have sent me internal chat messages after I closed my laptop for a final time on Thursday afternoon, I apologize for my lack of response! (Zoomed in)

Indeed, it has been quite a week, so I thought I'd share it with the KDD 2026 audience! For my Google colleagues who might have sent me internal chat messages after I closed my laptop for a final time on Thursday afternoon, I apologize for my lack of response! (Zoomed in)

That day was super fun, @gabepereyra! Thanks for inviting me! What you didn't happen to mention was that it wasn't just a normal USC club soccer team practice session, but actually was tryouts day. So there were like 80 skilled undergrads there, all eager to make the team. So it was divided up into a bunch of small-sided 7v7 games. I like to think 45-year-old me kind of held my own, but I'm sure everyone was thinking "Who's the old guy playing in our 7v7 match?" 😅

Incredibly excited & proud to announce @radicalvcfund co-lead investment partnership with @JeffDean, @OriolVinyalsML, @quocleix and @sanjay_ghemawat in their launch of @DiscoLoopAI. Perhaps the most pedigreed AI founding team ever. Thrilled to help them fulfill their mission.

@JeffDean has built the foundations that every era of modern computing has stood on, from web-scale infrastructure to scaling deep learning itself. Exceptional people inspire great talent and the founding team around him is among the strongest I have ever seen in over 25 years of investing. @lightspeedvp is honored to join them from the start of this journey.

@Azaliamirh @Sanjay_Ghemawat @quocleix @OriolVinyalsML Thanks, @Azaliamirh, and thanks to both you and @annadgoldie for being so kind in offering advice to us as we start this journey and having us over for Ricursive's happy hour a little while ago! We're inspired by what you all are building there!

When I was an undergrad at USC, I emailed @JeffDean inviting him to come play soccer with the club team after his talk on campus. To my surprise he ended up moving a meeting with the dean to come and play with us. What is truly special about Jeff is that despite being responsible for some of the most impressive engineering and AI work in history, he still finds time for everyone - even if it means taking a break from inventing tensorflow to kick a ball around with an undergrad who looked up to him. I was fortunate to see some of the great work Jeff, @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML and @quocleix did at Brain and DeepMind. They are truly unique - so excited to see what this team can build.

That day was super fun, @gabepereyra! Thanks for inviting me! What you didn't happen to mention was that it wasn't just a normal USC club soccer team practice session, but actually was tryouts day. So there were like 80 skilled undergrads there, all eager to make the team. So it was divided up into a bunch of small-sided 7v7 games. I like to think 45-year-old me kind of held my own, but I'm sure everyone was thinking "Who's the old guy playing in our 7v7 match?" 😅

Btw since there were a bunch of Jeff Dean stories being shared recently, I thought I'd share mine: Jeff Dean was the second investor in @SophontAI. We got connected through a founder friend. After briefly reviewing our pitch deck, he immediately decided to invest. He had a high level of conviction in our mission much earlier than many others. Something I was honestly surprised about is his level of support for our company. As the Chief Scientist at Google, I figured he would be extremely busy but whenever we have any asks of our investors he quickly responds with suggestions and he always tries to find ways to help. I don't know how he has time to do it! I am so grateful and honored to have Jeff Dean as an investor in Sophont, not just because he has been a massive inspiration for me as an engineer and medical AI researcher, but because of his early conviction and steadfast support of our mission.

I also want to give a huge thanks to the incomparable @JeffDean after an incredible 27-year run at Google. He’s off to start his own public benefit corporation with @Sanjay_Ghemawat focused on accelerating discoveries across ML, science, & engineering. @Google will support as a founding investor and Cloud partner. On a personal note, it’s been a privilege to work with Jeff and Sanjay, and I wish them all the best. Thank you for everything!