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Jeff Dean

5 facts from 4 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.

2003

Jeff Dean built AdSense, which serves ads on third-party pages, in about six weeks in early 2003.

“Jeff Dean builds AdSense in six weeks. The whole system.”

Acquired · Google Part I: Origins of Search, 2:50:11

2003

Jeff Dean used the Phil language model to build Google's AdSense implementation in about a week.

“Jeff Dean borrows Phil and famously uses it to code up his implementation of AdSense in a week because he's Jeff Dean.”

Acquired · Google Part III: The AI Company, 0:15:42

2007

Jeff Dean's re-architecture of Google Translate's language model cut average sentence translation time from 12 hours to 100 milliseconds.

“Jeff's work with the team gets that average sentence translation time down from 12 hours to 100 milliseconds.”

Acquired · Google Part III: The AI Company, 0:21:56

2019

Before founding Cohere, Gomez collaborated remotely with Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat on Google's Pathways, a program to train models across a larger unit of compute built from wired-together supercomputers.

“And then I was also collaborating remotely with Jeff Dean and Sanjay on Pathways, which was like their, you know, bigger than a supercomputer training program.”

Aidan Gomez · Model Plateaus and Enterprise AI Adoption with Cohere's Aidan Gomez, 0:03:00

Undated

DJ Patil said Andrew Ng started the Google Brain project along with Jeff Dean, Greg Corrado and Rajat Monga.

“Along with Jeff Dean, Greg, uh, Corrado, and uh, Rajat Monga, you started uh the Google uh DeepMind, uh, not the deep”

DJ Patil · Andrew Ng on winning the AI race, with DJ Patil, 0:04:31

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