Sakana AI names Jürgen Schmidhuber Chief Scientific Advisor
AdrienLE · x · 2026-09-26
Sakana AI officially announced that Jürgen Schmidhuber, widely credited as a founding figure of modern deep learning, is joining as Chief Scientific Advisor. The company cites his four decades of work on learning-to-learn, 1990s world model frameworks, and pioneering meta-learning toward recursive self-improvement — ideas that shaped Sakana's Darwin Gödel Machine and The AI Scientist.
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