
DeepMind's David Silver Launches $1.1 Billion AI Startup Betting on Reinforcement Learning
David Silver, the DeepMind scientist behind AlphaGo's historic 2016 win over Lee Sedol, has raised $1.1 billion to launch Ineffable Intelligence, a startup valued at $5.1 billion that bets on reinforcement learning rather than large language models to achieve superintelligence. The company launched in January 2026.



