Google Labs executive Clay Bavor said he is leaving the company to launch an AI startup with former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor.  In a LinkedIn post, Bavor said he and Taylor "share an obsession" with AI's advancements and are "excited to build a new company to apply AI to solve some of the most important problems in business." He did not elaborate further, saying only that they "will have more to share once we get started." Bavor, who is VP of Labs, Google's forward-looking bets segment, will depart the company in March after 18 years. Prior to taking on his current role in November 2021, Bavor was VP of Google AR/VR, leading related projects such as Google Lens and Project Starline, the company's 3D video chat booth technology. Meanwhile, Taylor stepped down as co-CEO of Salesforce in January, saying he decided to return to his "entrepreneurial roots." Before Salesforce, Taylor founded and ran Quip, a collaborative productivity software suite acquired by Salesforce for $750M in 2016. He was also CTO at Facebook, now Meta Platforms, from 2010 to 2012.