David Silver, creator of AlphaGo, founded Ineffable Intelligence to build superintelligence through reinforcement learning rather than LLM scaling. He argues that large language models are fundamentally limited because they learn from human-generated data ("fossil fuel"), while self-learning systems represent a "renewable fuel" that can improve indefinitely. The company raised $1.1 billion at a $5.1 billion valuation and recruited researchers from DeepMind.
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The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path
AlphaGo's David Silver launches Ineffable Intelligence with $1.1B to build superintelligence via self-learning reinforcement systems, rejecting the industry's LLM scaling consensus as inefficient "fossil fuel" AI.
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