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Oriol Vinyals

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Co-founder at Discovery Loop

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Vinyals co-created sequence-to-sequence learning, which taught one neural network to encode an input and another to generate an output—a design that transformed machine translation. He later led AlphaStar, showing that reinforcement learning could master the long-term strategy and imperfect information of StarCraft II.

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Background

Current role
Co-founder 2026-present
Previously
Until 2026VP of Research,
Born1983
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 8, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26461,008411,344361,680Aug 25, '25Apr 15, '26Jun 15, '26Sep 1, '26
461,008citations as of Sep 1, '26+10,330 since Aug 1, '26
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