Sakana AI recruits 'father of modern AI' Jürgen Schmidhuber as Chief Scientific Advisor
AdrienLE · x · 2026-09-25
Sakana AI has announced that Jürgen Schmidhuber, widely credited as a father of modern AI, is joining as Chief Scientific Advisor.
- Nearly four decades of work on how machines learn to learn, with 1990s research driving core deep learning advances and early world model frameworks
- His meta-learning innovations are seen as opening the path toward recursive self-improvement
- Sakana says these ideas already shaped its Darwin Gödel Machine and The AI Scientist projects
The reshare quips: "It's over. From now on everything will be invented by Sakana AI."
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