Turing Award winner Richard Sutton has launched Oak Lab in Toronto, focusing on AI agents that continuously learn from their environment, diverging from current AI paradigms.
Sutton believes that reinforcement learning will be the key to the next phase of AI
Jul 14, 2026
07:43 pm
What's the storyRichard Sutton, a prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and Turing Award winner, has launched a new venture called Oak Lab.
The Toronto-based lab is focused on creating AI agents that learn continuously from their environment.
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