Sakana AI names deep learning pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber as Chief Scientific Advisor
SakanaAILabs · x · 2026-09-24
Sakana AI announced that Jürgen Schmidhuber has joined as Chief Scientific Advisor.
- Schmidhuber, widely credited as a father of modern AI, spent nearly four decades on machine learning; his 1990s work underpinned deep learning and early world models, and his meta-learning research pointed toward recursive self-improvement (RSI)
- Sakana says his ideas already shaped its Darwin Gödel Machine and The AI Scientist projects
- He will guide the newly formed RSI Lab, aimed at triggering a compounding cycle of scientific discovery to improve machine intelligence, as the company recruits world-class researchers
It's a landmark hire and research-direction signal for Sakana's evolutionary self-improving-AI agenda.
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