DeepMind’s David Silver just raised $1.1B to build an AI that learns without human data

David Silver, former DeepMind researcher, founded Ineffable Intelligence and raised $1.1B to develop a "superlearner" AI that discovers knowledge and skills without human data using reinforcement learning. The company aims to scale Silver's prior work on AlphaZero—which mastered chess and Go through pure self-play—to general intelligence. Ineffable claims success would represent a breakthrough of comparable magnitude to explaining all intelligence.