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Oct 17, 2026
Wes RothHOST
So the team was led by Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX fame, and the team previously worked at DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Tesla, and the University of Toronto.
Wes RothHOST
They're responsible some, for some pretty big breakthroughs in this field, including things like AlphaStar, AlphaCode, Inception, Minerva, GPT 3.5, and GPT-4.
Wes RothHOST
We'll take a look at all the players in here in just a second.
Wes RothHOST
And on the advisory board, the team is advised by Dan Hendrycks, who currently serves as the director of Center for AI Safety.
Wes RothHOST
Another ex-Google employee that, uh, has expertise in deep learning, artificial intelligence, computer vision, video analysis, et cetera.
Wes RothHOST
Jimmy Ba, who focuses on machines that mirror human-like efficiency and adaptability.
Wes RothHOST
Then we have Toby Polen, who worked on the AlphaStar.
Wes RothHOST
That's the StarCraft DeepMind research AI.
Max JaderbergGUEST
I, you know, worked on all of these sort of big, uh, breakthrough projects.
Max JaderbergGUEST
I was working on, like, core deep learning and then, um, generative models and then just scaling up reinforcement learning and, you know, smashing all these game domains like AlphaGo, AlphaStar, you know, Capture the Flag, all of these sort of things.
Max JaderbergGUEST
Um, I've always been most interested to see the impact of all of this stuff rather than just the creation of the machines themselves.
Max JaderbergGUEST
Um, and for me, it got to a point where, um, we were solving, like, impossible problem after impossible problem at DeepMind.
Steve GibsonHOST
Uh, he was funded to a tune of one point one billion dollars to determine whether an AI can simply be trained from the ground up through its own experience.
Steve GibsonHOST
Earlier, David led DeepMind's AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and AlphaStar projects, and he's now founded, uh, his London-based startup, which is named Ineffable Intelligence.
Steve GibsonHOST
And his stated goal is the creation of a so-called super learner that can discover knowledge through its own experience rather than from human-generated and provided data.
Steve GibsonHOST
Oh, and not to be left out nor long forgotten, we have the famous coder and video game developer John Carmack.
Steve GibsonHOST
Uh, he was funded to a tune of one point one billion dollars to determine whether an AI can simply be trained from the ground up through its own experience.
Steve GibsonHOST
Earlier, David led DeepMind's AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and AlphaStar projects, and he's now founded, uh, his London-based startup, which is named Ineffable Intelligence.
Steve GibsonHOST
And his stated goal is the creation of a so-called super learner that can discover knowledge through its own experience rather than from human-generated and provided data.
Steve GibsonHOST
Oh, and not to be left out, nor long forgotten, we have the famous coder and video game developer John Carmack.
Steve GibsonHOST
Uh, he was funded to a tune of one point one billion dollars to determine whether an AI can simply be trained from the ground up through its own experience.
Steve GibsonHOST
Earlier, David led DeepMind's AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and AlphaStar projects, and he's now founded, uh, his London-based startup, which is named Ineffable Intelligence.
Steve GibsonHOST
And his stated goal is the creation of a so-called super learner that can discover knowledge through its own experience rather than from human-generated and provided data Oh, and not to be left out, nor long forgotten, we have the famous coder and video game developer John Carmack.
Steve GibsonHOST
Uh, he's exploring pure reinforcement learning.
Sonya HuangHOST
Mm-hmm.
Sonya HuangHOST
I think three of the co-founders worked together on, on AlphaStar.
Sonya HuangHOST
Um, many of you, many of you did work together.
Sonya HuangHOST
Are you, are you assembling the Avengers from...
Sonya HuangHOST
Especially given the recent changes from DeepMind, are you assembling the Avengers of folks that you've worked with in the past? Have you hired new people and, and if so, kind of what are the attributes that make somebody new to you, um, likely to be a fit at Ineffable?
David SilverGUEST
So, so it's a, a mixture.
David SilverGUEST
So I mean, AlphaStar was an exceptional team.
David SilverGUEST
Um, it was sort of intentionally assembled within DeepMind by choosing the kind of best of the best to work on that project.
Steve GibsonHOST
Uh, he was funded to a tune of one point one billion dollars to determine whether an AI can simply be trained from the ground up through its own experience.
Steve GibsonHOST
Earlier, David led DeepMind's AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and AlphaStar projects, and he's now founded, uh, his London-based startup, which is named Ineffable Intelligence.
Steve GibsonHOST
And his stated goal is the creation of a so-called super learner that can discover knowledge through its own experience rather than from human-generated and provided data Oh, and not to be left out, nor long forgotten, we have the famous coder and video game developer John Carmack.
Steve GibsonHOST
Uh, he's exploring pure reinforcement learning.
Steve GibsonHOST
Uh, he was funded to a tune of one point one billion dollars to determine whether an AI can simply be trained from the ground up through its own experience.
Steve GibsonHOST
Earlier, David led DeepMind's AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and AlphaStar projects, and he's now founded, uh, his London-based startup, which is named Ineffable Intelligence.
Steve GibsonHOST
And his stated goal is the creation of a so-called super learner that can discover knowledge through its own experience rather than from human-generated and provided data.
Steve GibsonHOST
Oh, and not to be left out, nor long forgotten, we have the famous coder and video game developer John Carmack.
Steve GibsonHOST
Uh, he was funded to a tune of one point one billion dollars to determine whether an AI can simply be trained from the ground up through its own experience.
Steve GibsonHOST
Earlier, David led DeepMind's AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and AlphaStar projects, and he's now founded, uh, his London-based startup, which is named Ineffable Intelligence.
Steve GibsonHOST
And his stated goal is the creation of a so-called super learner that can discover knowledge through its own experience rather than from human-generated and provided data.
Steve GibsonHOST
Oh, and not to be left out, nor long forgotten, we have the famous coder and video game developer John Carmack.