Jürgen Schmidhuber is joining Sakana AI as Chief Scientific Advisor.
@SchmidhuberAI pioneered meta-learning, recursive self-improvement, and world models back in the 1990s, when compute was a million times more expensive. He has been thinking about machines that improve themselves since before compute was cheap enough to make it practical.
These ideas inspired the Darwin Gödel Machine and The AI Scientist. Our RSI Lab in Tokyo, now under Jürgen’s guidance, is working on agent-native world models and recursive self-improvement for physical AI.