David Silver was one of the earliest researchers at DeepMind and was responsible for "Reinforcement Learning" - a way of training AI models from experience rather than historical data (i.e. they learn by trial and error as opposed to learning from historical data). He has now founded Ineffable Intelligence, which according to someone close to Silver, will aim to build “an endlessly learning superintelligence that self-discovers the foundations of all knowledge,”

Finally some British press is actually covering this https://www.ft.com/content/dffe72d0-4064-4412-8ebc-50198a30d40e

So little coverage in any of the press!

"for the capital shortage sceptics: there is no UK VC fund who could lead this round"

Thrilled someone is swinging this big from the UK. But it's hard not to feel annoyed that it takes a near-mythical "superhuman intelligence" pitch to unlock that scale of ambition here

Will it support OpenClaw...

I really hope this doesn't go the same way as Thinking Machines. Starting off with $1B in the bank just doesn't seem like the right incentives to me, even if you do need significant compute