Sakana AI hires Jürgen Schmidhuber, inventor of deep learning
sakana ai hires jürgen schmidhuber, a pioneer in deep learning and world models, as chief scientific advisor to drive its autonomous systems research.
tokyo-based startup sakana ai has hired jürgen schmidhuber, a pioneer in deep learning and world models, as its chief scientific advisor. schmidhuber's 1991 paper and 1990 work on world models are credited with shaping sakana's projects, including the darwin gödel machine and the ai scientist. he will lead sakana's new rsi lab, which aims to gather world-class experts in tokyo to build autonomous systems that can understand, simulate, and interact with the physical universe. schmidhuber's appointment aims to bridge japan's legacy of neural network architectures and advanced robotics with the future of physical ai powered by world models.