tech
April 27, 2026
Sequoia and Nvidia back David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence at $5.1B
Silver left Google DeepMind in late 2025 after more than a decade building AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaStar, and contributing to Gemini. Ineffable Intelligence was incorporated in November 2025 and has no product, no revenue, and no public roadmap.
TL;DR
- David Silver, known for AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and AlphaStar, has founded Ineffable Intelligence.
- The startup is valued at $5.1 billion, with funding from Sequoia Capital and Nvidia.
- Ineffable Intelligence has no product, revenue, or public roadmap, focusing instead on a novel AI development thesis.
- Silver's thesis posits that reinforcement learning, through self-play and interaction with environments, can lead to genuine discovery beyond human knowledge, contrasting with current large language models.
- The high valuation reflects investor confidence in Silver's past achievements and the potential of his reinforcement learning approach to achieve superintelligence.
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