Jürgen Schmidhuber Joins Sakana AI as Chief Scientific Advisor
hardmaru · x · 2026-09-25
Sakana AI announced Jürgen Schmidhuber — often called a father of modern AI — as its Chief Scientific Advisor. The company cites his foundational work in deep learning, world models, and meta-learning toward recursive self-improvement, noting his ideas already shaped projects like the Darwin Gödel Machine and The AI Scientist.
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