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Jurgen Schmidhuber
AI researcher widely credited with foundational work on world models, meta-learning, and recursive self-improvement. As of Sep 24 2026, Chief Scientific Advisor at Sakana AI (alongside other positions), helping guide the Tokyo RSI Lab's physical AI / World Models agenda per Sakana's company announcement.
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- Chief Scientific Advisor (RSI Lab)
Sakana AI is a Tokyo-based AI research company building recursive self-improvement systems and world models, with an explicit physical AI / robotics framing.
Current roles (1)
- Sakana AI Chief Scientific Advisor (RSI Lab)since 2026-09-24IR-verified
Sources (2)
- https://sakana.ai/schmidhuber/ · 2026-09-24
- https://sakana.ai/rsi-lab/ · 2026-06-01
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