TechCrunch British AI start‑up Ineffable Intelligence announced a $1.1 billion funding round that values the company at $5.1 billion. Founded by former DeepMind researcher David Silver, the lab aims to create a “superlearner” that can acquire knowledge and skills through reinforcement learning alone, without relying on human‑generated data. The round was led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners and included investors such as Index Ventures, Google, Nvidia, the British Business Bank and the U.K.’s sovereign AI fund. Silver says any profits will fund high‑impact charities.
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