Google’s VP of labs, Salesforce’s former co-CEO to form AI company

After working 18 years at Google, Clay Bavor, Google’s vice president of labs, has announced that he will leave the company next month and will build a new artificial intelligence (AI) company with Salesforce’s former co-CEO, Bret Taylor.

Bavor made the announcement in a post on his LinkedIn account.

“Bret and I have known each other since our early days at Google, and I have always admired his keen product sense and entrepreneurial spirit, his technical chops, and, above all, his character and integrity,” he said.

“We share an obsession with recent advances in AI, and we’re excited to build a new company to apply AI to solve some of the most important problems in business.”