Sakana AI hires Jürgen Schmidhuber, inventor of deep learning, world models, and your next ChatGPT update
Tokyo-based Sakana AI has hired Jürgen Schmidhuber, a pioneer in deep learning and world models, as Chief Scientific Advisor to lead its new Recursive Self-Improvement Lab. Schmidhuber's decades-old research has already influenced Sakana projects like the Darwin Gödel Machine.
Why it matters
Hiring a foundational AI researcher signals serious investment in advanced AI development and suggests the company is pursuing cutting-edge techniques that could shape future AI capabilities.
