Sakana AI hires Jürgen Schmidhuber to lead its recursive self-improvement lab
The Decoder · rss · 2026-09-25
Tokyo-based Sakana AI has hired Jürgen Schmidhuber as Chief Scientific Advisor. He will lead the company's new RSI Lab, focused on recursive self-improvement — AI that keeps developing itself. His 1990s ideas already shaped Sakana projects like the Darwin Gödel Machine.
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