Schmidhuber, 'father of modern AI,' joins Sakana AI to lead its Recursive Self-Improvement lab
hardmaru · x · 2026-09-25
Sakana AI has appointed Jürgen Schmidhuber, often called the 'father of modern AI,' as Chief Scientific Advisor while he keeps his posts at the Swiss AI Institute (IDSIA) and elsewhere.
He will lead and advise Sakana's newly launched RSI Lab, which researches Recursive Self-Improvement — using AI to automate and improve the AI development process itself — visiting Tokyo regularly to work with the team. Schmidhuber proposed self-improving learning programs in papers dating back to the 1980s. The hire also reflects Sakana's strategy of recruiting world-class researchers amid Japan's AI talent outflow.
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