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# Sakana AI Appoints Jürgen Schmidhuber to Lead Recursive Self Improvement Lab

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**Published:** 2026-09-24T20:39:46.000Z
**Category:** Research
**Topics:** anthropic, research, agent, multi\-agent, sakana, infra, sakana\-ai, schmidhuber

## Summary

Research into agent\-native world models and physical AI will now center around a new facility in Tokyo\. The project, known as the RSI Lab, will be guided by Jürgen Schmidhuber in his new role as Chief Scientific Advisor at Sakana AI to trigger a compounding cycle of scientific discovery aimed at improving machine intelligence\. Schmidhuber, often called the father of modern AI, pioneered meta\-learning and established early frameworks for world models in the 1990s\. His research on recursive self\-improvement and machines that learn to learn provided the conceptual foundation for Sakana AI's Darwin Gödel Machine and The AI Scientist\.

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