News April 28, 2026
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DeepMind's David Silver Raises $1.1 Billion Seed Round at $5.1 Billion Valuation for Reinforcement Learning Lab Ineffable Intelligence
David Silver, the reinforcement learning researcher behind AlphaGo, has raised $1.1 billion in seed funding for Ineffable Intelligence at a $5.1 billion valuation. The London-based lab aims to build AI 'superlearners' that discover knowledge through trial and error rather than training on human data, backed by Sequoia, Lightspeed, Nvidia, Google, and the UK Sovereign AI Fund.