Ineffable Intelligence

Superintelligence from reinforcement learning on the system's own experience, without human text. The aim is a 'superlearner' that discovers knowledge from motor skills to science. Builds on Silver and Richard Sutton's 'Era of Experience' argument (April 2025), with world models for planning.

Founded
November 2025
Headquarters
London, UK
Founders
David Silver
Pushes against
LLMs trained on human data as the path to superintelligence.
Now
Silver left Google DeepMind in early 2026 (reported 2026-01-31). No product, model or paper released; seed closed 2026-04-27. Silver pledged personal equity gains to charity via Founders Pledge (reported).

Key people

  • David Silver (founder; AlphaGo/AlphaZero lead, ex-DeepMind, UCL professor)

Funding

  • 27 April 2026
    Amount
    $1.1B seed (largest European seed)
    Valuation
    $5.1B
    Lead
    Co-led by Sequoia and Lightspeed (Nvidia, DST, Index, Google, UK Sovereign AI Fund)
    Source cnbc.com

Every funding round in the atlas

People moves

Of the moves the atlas tracks, 6 joined and 0 left.

Sources

  1. cnbc.com/2026/04/27/deepmind-ineffable-intelligence-record-seed-funding-nvidia-google.html
  2. the-decoder.com/google-deepmind-pioneer-david-silver-departs-to-found-ai-startup-betting-l
  3. mlq.ai/news/ex-deepmind-researcher-david-silvers-ineffable-intelligence-raises-record-11b-

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