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Sakana AI hires Jürgen Schmidhuber as Chief Scientific Advisor
Tokyo-based startup Sakana AI has hired Jürgen Schmidhuber as Chief Scientific Advisor to help steer its new RSI lab, which aims to build a self-reinforcing research loop and advance projects like the Darwin Gödel Machine and The AI Scientist. Sakana credits Schmidhuber's early work on deep learning, world models, and meta-learning as influential to its focus on physical, world-model–based autonomous systems.
KEY POINTS
- Tokyo-based startup Sakana AI has hired Jürgen Schmidhuber as Chief Scientific Advisor to help steer its new RSI lab, which aims to build a self-reinforcing research loop and advance projects like the Darwin Gödel Machine and The AI Scientist.
- Sakana credits Schmidhuber's early work on deep learning, world models, and meta-learning as influential to its focus on physical, world-model–based autonomous systems.
- Bringing a high-profile AI pioneer into a startup focused on self-improving, world-model–based physical AI could accelerate research and attract talent and funding.
WHY IT MATTERS
Bringing a high-profile AI pioneer into a startup focused on self-improving, world-model–based physical AI could accelerate research and attract talent and funding.