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.
Related event: Deep Learning Pioneer Schmidhuber Joins Sakana AI(2 posts)→
More from Companies & People
- ZenML Hiring Product and DevRel Engineers to Build Tools for AI Engineers — strickvl · 2026-09-25
- Carlo Sferrazza returning to ETH Zurich to build humanoid robotics lab, recruiting PhDs — notmahi · 2026-09-25
- Anthropic CRO: enterprises are more protective of AI than SaaS ever was, favoring incumbents — robleclerc · 2026-09-25
- Gusto CEO on scaling to 500k customers, $1B+ revenue, and AI's real impact on SMBs — ycombinator · 2026-09-25
- Lightmatter CEO: moving lasers onto 300mm silicon wafers to unlock optical interconnect — BenBajarin · 2026-09-25
- Researcher joins Blank Bio to build foundation models for biology — michaelrzhang · 2026-09-25