“The next frontier of AI is superlearners — systems that learn continuously from experience,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “We are thrilled to partner with Ineffable Intelligence to codesign the infrastructure for large-scale reinforcement learning as they push the frontier of AI and pioneer a new generation of intelligent systems.”

Silver is one of the pioneers of reinforcement learning, an approach that has transformed AI research. He’s focused on further developing this approach into a new paradigm.

“Researchers have largely solved the easier problem of AI: how to build systems that know all the things humans already know,” Silver said. “But now we need to solve the harder problem of AI: how to build systems that discover new knowledge for themselves. That requires a very different approach — systems that learn from experience.”

That kind of learning needs a powerful and highly optimized pipeline to support it. Unlike pretraining, where a fixed dataset of human data flows through the system, reinforcement learning workloads generate their data on the fly.