Google veteran of 18 years leaving to start A.I. company with ex-Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor

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Google veteran Clay Bavor is leaving the company to build a startup focused on artificial intelligence with former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor. Bavor is currently vice president of Labs, a Google unit that focuses on "forward-looking bets for the company," according to his LinkedIn profile. Bavor said hell be starting the company with Taylor in March and wrapping things up at Google in the meantime. Taylor stepped down as co-CEO of Salesforce on Jan. 31, leaving Marc Benioff alone again at the top of the cloud software company. Taylor, who previously worked at Google and Facebook, joined Salesforce through the 2016 acquisition of his last startup, Quip.

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