Google Fellow Sanjay Ghemawat, the Indian-American co-architect of MapReduce and Bigtable, is stepping away from Google to co-found a new artificial intelligence venture alongside Jeff Dean, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals — the latest sign that the deepest technical talent in Silicon Valley is betting on independent AI labs over incumbent giants.
By Shaym Kumar
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