Sakana names Schmidhuber to its self-improvement lab
Sakana AI said Jürgen Schmidhuber is joining as chief scientific advisor and will work with its Recursive Self-Improvement Lab. The Decoder reported the same Tokyo appointment on the same day.
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Schmidhuber joins the Tokyo lab
Tokyo-based Sakana AI hired Jürgen Schmidhuber as chief scientific advisor. The company calls him a founder of modern AI; that label is Sakana's characterization. Schmidhuber said physical AI runs on world models. Sakana wrote that it is gathering experts in Tokyo for a research loop. The appointment names the advisor and the lab. Sakana AI said on 24 September that Jürgen Schmidhuber is joining as chief scientific advisor, beside his current posts, and will work with its Recursive Self-Improvement Lab. The page quotes him on physical AI and world models.[1], [2]
Tokyo, and the posts he keeps
Both pages date the announcement to 24 September and both name the Recursive Self-Improvement Lab. Sakana says he joins alongside his current positions. The Decoder carries the same appointment as a hire in Tokyo. Neither page says he left those other posts. The visible act is a title: chief scientific advisor. The lab is the place the title attaches. Both pages announce the advisor title and the lab.[1], [2]
Physical AI stays a quotation
Schmidhuber's line on the company page is about physical AI and world models, and about Japan as a birthplace of neural-network work and robotics. That sentence is his, on Sakana's page. The Decoder reports the hire and the lab. The Decoder stays with the hire and the lab. The reader gets one appointment on 24 September, one lab, and one advisor who keeps his other posts. The rest of Sakana's research history is background on the company page, background beside the appointment. The appointment is one advisor and one lab on one day. Both pages keep the other posts in place. The named item is the advisor title. The reader is left with the title, the lab and the day. Nothing in the appointment names a product ship date.[2]
