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DeepMind’s David Silver just raised $1.1B to build an AI that learns without human data

David Silver's new AI startup Ineffable Intelligence has raised $1.1 billion to develop AI systems that can learn without human-labeled data. The massive funding round values the company at $5.1 billion despite being founded just months ago. This represents a major bet on next-generation AI that could reduce reliance on expensive human-curated datasets.

Background

David Silver was a key researcher at DeepMind who co-authored many seminal papers on reinforcement learning, including AlphaGo and AlphaZero. The field has been exploring ways to reduce AI's dependence on human-curated training data.

Source
TechCrunch
Published
Apr 28, 2026 at 01:24 AM
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