Topic: deepmind alumni

DeepMind alumni's AI beats OpenAI and Anthropic at research replication

August 22, 2026

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DeepMind alumni's AI beats OpenAI and Anthropic at research replication

Inherent, a London AI lab founded by DeepMind alumni, reports its AI agent Faraday outperformed larger models from Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating published scientific findings, using a much smaller 27-billion-parameter model (Qwen 3.6) versus frontier-scale systems like Claude Opus 4.8 and G...

DeepMind’s David Silver raises $1.1B for AI that learns without human data

Ineffable Intelligence, a new British AI lab founded by former DeepMind researcher David Silver, has raised $1.1 billion at a $5.1 billion valuation to build a "superlearner" AI using reinforcement learning. The company aims to replicate the success of DeepMind's AlphaZero,which mastered games th...

DeepMind poker AI trio now powers quant hedge fund profits

EquiLibre Technologies, an AI lab founded by researchers who created the poker AI DeepStack, has raised Series A funding at a $500 million valuation, with Creandum making its largest-ever single investment in the company. The startup uses reinforcement learning algorithms to trade billions of dol...