These AI Barons Are Ready to Give Away Their Fortunes
AI researcher Demis Hassabis-colleague Demis Silver has launched a new startup, Ineffable Intelligence, with a $1.1 billion seed round. He has pledged to donate all future proceeds from the company's sale to charity, joining a growing trend of AI-focused techno-philanthropy.
Between 2013 and 2025, Silver worked as a researcher at Google DeepMind. He specialized in reinforcement learning, a method of teaching an AI model through positive and negative feedback. In 2016, he led the development of AlphaGo, which became the first AI to defeat a human champion in the game of Go and was heralded as a narrow form of superintelligence. Silver left to start Ineffable Intelligence in January, betting that reinforcement learning breakthroughs will close the gap between human and machine cognition across the board.
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