Jürgen Schmidhuber, 'Father of Modern AI,' Joins Sakana AI as Chief Scientific Advisor
wavefnx · x · 2026-09-25
Sakana AI has officially announced that Jürgen Schmidhuber, widely regarded as one of the fathers of modern AI, is joining the company as Chief Scientific Advisor.
Schmidhuber has spent nearly four decades exploring how machines can learn to learn, with his foundational 1990s work underpinning core advances in deep learning. His move to the Tokyo-based lab — known for evolutionary model merging and the AI Scientist — is a major endorsement of its research direction.
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