Jürgen Schmidhuber joins Sakana AI as Chief Scientific Advisor
RobertTLange · x · 2026-09-25
Sakana AI officially announced that Jürgen Schmidhuber has joined as Chief Scientific Advisor. CEO hardmaru noted Schmidhuber pioneered meta-learning, recursive self-improvement, and world models in the 1990s, when compute was a million times more expensive.
These ideas directly inspired Sakana's Darwin Gödel Machine and The AI Scientist. The company's RSI Lab in Tokyo, now under Schmidhuber's guidance, will work on agent-native world models and recursive self-improvement for physical AI.
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