Long-time DeepMind researcher David Silver is raising one billion dollars for his London-based AI start-up Ineffable Intelligence, the largest seed round in European start-up history. Instead of training on internet text like today's LLMs, Silver is betting on reinforcement learning in simulated environments to build an "endlessly learning superintelligence."<br /> The article Deepmind veteran David Silver raises $1B seed round to build superintelligence without LLMs appeared first on The Decoder. [...]
David Silver, one of the key AI researchers behind landmark Deepmind projects like AlphaGo and AlphaZero, is leaving the Google subsidiary to found his own startup. He doesn't believe large langu [...]
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Ineffable Intelligence, the London startup founded by the DeepMind researcher behind AlphaGo, has named Google Cloud as the infrastructure partner for its frontier AI lab. The deal, announced at Googl [...]