Who is betting on what in AI, and against whom.
Jürgen Schmidhuber
Researcher
LSTM co-inventor who directs the AI Initiative at KAUST and co-founded NNAISENSE. Proposed the Gödel machine, a provably self-improving agent, in 2003; his KAUST group shipped a partial version in 2025.
Known for LSTM; Gödel machine; Artificial curiosity
Works in
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2021 – nowKAUST AI Initiative, Director, AI Initiative
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dates not recordedNNAISENSE, Co-founder and chief scientist