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David Silver

Reinforcement-learning researcher who led the reinforcement learning team at Google DeepMind and left in January 2026 to found Ineffable Intelligence.

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Welcome to January 31, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

David Silver led the reinforcement learning team at Google DeepMind. In this corpus he appears once, leaving DeepMind to found Ineffable Intelligence with the aim of building a superintelligence that self-discovers the foundations of all knowledge from scratch, reported in the same item as OpenAI’s in-house data agent.

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2026-09-27: David Silver reportedly leaves DeepMind and raises capital

2026-01-31: OpenAI uses a model on 600 petabytes to make its own decisions

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