Schmidhuber Reiterates: Roots of Current AI Boom Trace Back to 1991 Munich

SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-08-06

In a recent blog update, Jürgen Schmidhuber reiterates that the technological foundations of today's trillion-dollar AI boom trace back to his team's 1991 research in Munich. He lists core concepts including early linear Transformers, Pre-Training, Neural Net Distillation, Deep Residual Learning, and GANs, asserting these form the basis of modern LLMs like ChatGPT. He also claims the heavily promoted JEPA architecture is essentially identical to his 1992 Predictability Maximization system.

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