Sakana AI hires Jürgen Schmidhuber, inventor of deep learning, world models, and your next ChatGPT update

Tokyo-based Sakana AI has appointed Jürgen Schmidhuber as its Chief Scientific Advisor to lead the firm's new RSI Lab. The laboratory will focus on recursive self-improvement, an area of research centered on developing artificial intelligence capable of autonomous iterative upgrades. Schmidhuber is recognized for his foundational work on deep learning and world models, providing the theoretical groundwork that continues to inform modern generative AI development.