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David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence Adds Six Co‑founders, Including Four Former DeepMind Researchers
Ineffable Intelligence, the London AI startup founded by former DeepMind RL chief David Silver, added six co‑founders — four ex‑DeepMind researchers — to senior roles, including leaders for reinforcement learning, science, compute, and research engineering. The hires (Chris Apps, Wojciech Czarnecki, Lasse Espeholt, Junhyuk Oh, Alexandre Laterre, and Heather Gorham) reflect a continued migration from DeepMind and a focus on automating RL research and infrastructure.
Ineffable Intelligence names six new ‘cofounders’ — ex-DeepMind, InstaDeep and Flying Fish veterans join $5B startup
Ineffable Intelligence, a London AI startup founded by ex-DeepMind researcher David Silver, has hired six senior hires as ‘cofounders’ from Google DeepMind, InstaDeep and venture firm Flying Fish; the company was valued at $5 billion after a $1.1 billion seed round in April. The new cofounders include Chris Apps, Wojciech Czarnecki, Lasse Espeholt, Junyhuk Oh, Alexandre Laterre and Heather Gorham, several of whom worked on DeepMind projects like AlphaStar and MetNet.
Cognition buys Poke; World Labs acquires SceniX; Midjourney purchased Co‑Star as AI startups expand by acquisition
Several early AI startups are making acquisitions: Cognition bought conversational assistant Poke to add personality to its coding agent Devin, World Labs acquired robotics firm SceniX to test simulations on real robots, and Midjourney acquired astrology app Co‑Star as it expands into standalone apps and other projects.
Nvidia backing up to $50 billion in leases at Hut 8’s 1GW Beacon Point Texas AI campus and supplying its DSX hardware
Reports say Nvidia is financing leases worth up to $50 billion at Hut 8’s 1-gigawatt Beacon Point AI data center in Texas and will supply hardware built to its DSX reference architecture, blurring lines between supplier, financier and customer. The move follows other reported Nvidia financing talks — including guarantees and purchase financing for OpenAI totaling hundreds of billions — raising regulatory and market-concentration concerns.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX IPOs Expected to Generate $3.6 Trillion and Fuel Silicon Valley Startup Boom
OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX IPOs could generate $3.6 trillion, sparking a surge in Silicon Valley startup investments and creating new billionaires among early investors and employees. This influx of wealth is expected to energize the tech ecosystem similarly to the dotcom boom, driving more venture capital and entrepreneurial activity.
Sequoia and Nvidia Back David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence at $5.1B Valuation
Sequoia Capital and Nvidia backed Ineffable Intelligence, the London AI startup founded by AlphaGo creator David Silver, at a $5.1 billion valuation despite the company having no product, revenue, or public roadmap; Nvidia’s venture arm invested at least $250 million and Sequoia led the round. Silver left DeepMind in late 2025 after over a decade building landmark systems like AlphaGo, AlphaZero and AlphaStar.
