Former Google DeepMind researcher's AI startup raises record $1.1 billion seed funding to pursue superintelligence

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A former top researcher at Google AI division DeepMind announced Monday a record $1.1 billion seed round for his months-old startup Ineffable Intelligence.

The startup is pursuing superintelligence and was founded in late 2025 by UCL professor and former lead of DeepMind’s reinforcement learning team David Silver. The seed round is the largest ever in Europe, according to the company, amounting to a valuation of $5.1 billion.

The round was co-led by U.S. venture capitalists Sequoia and Lightspeed, with participation from Nvidia

, DST Global, Index, Google

Former Google DeepMind researcher's AI startup raises record $1.1 billion seed funding to pursue superintelligence

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