AlphaGo creator David Silver raises $1.1B for AI approach distinct from LLMs

David Silver, the AI researcher behind AlphaGo, has founded Ineffable Intelligence to pursue a different path to superintelligence. His company will focus on reinforcement learning, where AI learns through trial and error, contrasting with the large language model (LLM) approach favored by most labs. Silver believes LLMs, which learn from human data, will ultimately fail to achieve true superintelligence, unlike systems that can learn from the world independently. Ineffable Intelligence has secured $1.1 billion in seed funding and aims to create AI capable of independent scientific discovery. AI

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IMPACT Challenges the dominant LLM paradigm, potentially shifting focus towards reinforcement learning for future AI development.

RANK_REASON Founding of a new AI lab by a prominent researcher with significant seed funding, pursuing a distinct technical approach.

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• David Silver
• AlphaGo
• Ineffable Intelligence
• Google DeepMind
• reinforcement learning
• large language models
• Demis Hassabis
• London

• model release
• funding
• opinion