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Oak Lab

Toronto, July 2026. 1T params learning in real time at 20W.

HQ
Toronto
Founded
Jul 2026
Web
oaklab.ai
Camps
Experience / RL

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What it does

Richard Sutton and Khurram Javed left Keen Technologies in July 2026 to found Oak Lab. The stated target is an agent with about a trillion parameters that learns continually from its own experience, one step at a time with no replay, on 20 watts. Public results so far are toy-scale.

Camp membership over time

  1. Jul 2026 – now
    Learn from experience
    Continual learning from raw experience; target 1T parameters at 20 W. Founded July 2026.
    Sources AI pioneer Richard Sutton founds new research lab BetaKit 2026-07-14 · Rich Sutton founds Oak Lab to build AI agents that learn on their own The Decoder 2026-07-13 · Oak Lab 2026-09-04

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People

KJKhurram JavedCo-founder
Richard SuttonRichard SuttonCo-founder

General sources

AI pioneer Richard Sutton founds new research lab BetaKit 2026-07-14 · Rich Sutton founds Oak Lab to build AI agents that learn on their own The Decoder 2026-07-13