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DeepMind's David Silver raises $1.1B for AI innovation
Ineffable Intelligence, a 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" using reinforcement learning that discovers knowledge without human data. The round was led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Google, Nvidia, Index Ventures, and the U.K.'s Sovereign AI fund.
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Summary
Ineffable Intelligence, a 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" using reinforcement learning that discovers knowledge without human data. The round was led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Google, Nvidia, Index Ventures, and the U.K.'s Sovereign AI fund.
Tags
ai-startup · reinforcement-learning · funding · deepmind · david-silver · venture-capital · london
Key entities
Ineffable Intelligence (organization, 0.99) · David Silver (person, 0.99) · DeepMind (organization, 0.98) · Sequoia Capital (organization, 0.95) · Lightspeed Venture Partners (organization, 0.95) · Index Ventures (organization, 0.9) · Google (organization, 0.93) · Nvidia (organization, 0.92) · Sovereign AI (organization, 0.88) · AlphaZero (technology, 0.95) · reinforcement learning (concept, 0.98) · superlearner (concept, 0.9) · University College London (organization, 0.88) · AMI Labs (organization, 0.85) · Yann LeCun (person, 0.9) · Recursive Superintelligence (organization, 0.85) · Tim Rocktäschel (person, 0.85) · British Business Bank (organization, 0.87) · London (location, 0.88) · TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (event, 0.8)
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analysis · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 7 May 2026