Nvidia has announced a partnership with an AI startup just months after being founded by a former top scientist. google Deep Mind.
Superintelligence company Ineffable Intelligence, founded in late 2025 by David Silver, a UCL professor and former leader of DeepMind’s reinforcement learning team, will partner with the semiconductor giant at an engineering level to build “AI systems that learn by trial and error,” the company announced on Wednesday.
The London-based company announced a record $1.1 billion seed round in April, co-led by US venture capitalists Sequoia and Lightspeed, with participation from Nvidia, DST Global, Index, Google, and the UK’s Sovereign AI Fund.
“The next frontier in AI is superlearners, systems that continuously learn from experience,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
He added, “We are excited to partner with Ineffable Intelligence, which is pioneering the frontiers of AI and pioneering a new generation of intelligent systems, to co-design a large-scale reinforcement learning infrastructure.”
“The next frontier of AI”
Unlike many leading AI models that are trained on human data, Ineffable Intelligence focuses on reinforcement learning, where AI models learn from experience.
“The system will be trained on a rich form of experience that is quite different from human language and other human data, potentially requiring new model architectures and training algorithms,” the company said.
David Silver. Credit: Peter Catchpole.
Nvidia and Ineffable added that engineers from both companies will work together to focus on building pipelines that can provide large-scale feeds to reinforcement learning systems. The work uses Nvidia’s Grace Blackwell chip and Vera Rubin platform.
“Researchers have largely solved the simpler problem in AI: how to build a system that recognizes everything humans already know,” Silver said.
“But now we need to solve a harder problem in AI: how to build systems that discover new knowledge on their own. That requires a completely different approach: systems that learn from experience.”
Next generation AI lab
Ineffable is one of several new AI labs founded by former top researchers at Big Tech companies that have launched in recent months, with investors pouring billions into the venture.
On Wednesday, Recursive Superintelligence, a months-old startup founded by former Google DeepMind engineer Tim Rocktäschel, announced it had raised $650 million. AMI Labs announced a $1 billion raise in March, months after founder Yann LeCun announced he was stepping down from his role as head of AI at Meta.
Over the past year, former staffers from OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic, and xAI have also raised hundreds of millions of dollars from investors in months-old ventures, including AI research labs Periodic Labs and Humans&.
