Claim · 2026-08-05 · event · Stated in source · Supported

Oriol Vinyals posted on X on 5 August 2026 that, after working at Google Brain, DeepMind and Google DeepMind, where he co-led projects including AlphaStar and Gemini, he was saying goodbye; The Next Web reported the same day that he had said goodbye on X.

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What it connects

Oriol Vinyals → had departure announced from → Google DeepMind

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Claim and evidence

Oriol Vinyalshad departure announced from ↓Google DeepMind

Machine-checkedStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary + secondary · 2 sources

Date: 2026-08-05 · event Records dated 2026 →
Activity stage: announced
Role: co-lead of Gemini (his post says he co-led AlphaStar and Gemini; no formal title given)

Scope and limitsThe text of the post retrievable through X’s syndication endpoint is truncated after “saying goodbye to”; the object of the goodbye is not in the retrieved text, and the departure from Google DeepMind rests on the post together with The Next Web’s report. Discovery Loop’s founding team is a separate existing record.

The evidence 02

primary sourceSupports the claim

Post by Oriol Vinyals on leaving Google (5 August 2026 UTC)

X · 2026-08-05

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Paraphrase

Vinyals writes that an email exchange with Jeff Dean brought him to Google thirteen years earlier, that he worked at Brain, DeepMind and Google DeepMind on seq2seq and distillation and co-led AlphaStar and Gemini, and that he is saying goodbye (the retrieved text ends there).

Location in source Post text

How it was read Post text read through X’s syndication endpoint, which can truncate long notes

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

Source details and check notes

Authors: Oriol Vinyals
Version: Dated post, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 c7e7f8fedbdfe56902c37748ff48993aa91ce86220a66c99e3d094a756aa7e5e) through X’s own syndication endpoint for the post’s text, which truncates long notes.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Oriol Vinyals, “Post by Oriol Vinyals on leaving Google (5 August 2026 UTC)”, 2026-08-05.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The paraphrase’s verbatim anchor “I'm saying goodbye to” matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. Read through X’s own syndication endpoint for the post’s text, which truncates long notes. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. The paraphrase is Selekoa’s; only the anchor is the source’s wording. No human editorial review.

secondary sourceSupports the claim

Google named the new boss of Gemini 4. Both of Gemini’s co-leads quit the same day

The Next Web · 2026-08-05

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Source excerpt

“Vinyals said goodbye on X”

Location in source Paragraph beginning “Vinyals said goodbye on X”

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

Source details and check notes

Authors: Ana Maria Constantin
Version: Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 cb44142b4a42818d378752db5b4041975786d8c61f88e006b7e90f90f6272e25) directly from the publisher.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Ana Maria Constantin, “Google named the new boss of Gemini 4. Both of Gemini’s co-leads quit the same day”, 2026-08-05.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The quotation (5 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Machine-checked. Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. A source announced this person’s departure from a specified role. The event date is the announcement, not an inferred final working day or end of every association.

Date. UTC date of the post (16:05). The last working day is not stated.

Record ID lg2-gm-vinyals-leaves-google-2026