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Jul 14, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Why RL Pioneer Richard Sutton Is Launching a Startup to Escape the Large‑Model Paradigm

At nearly 70, Turing‑award‑winning reinforcement‑learning pioneer Richard Sutton co‑founded Oak Lab to develop the OaK architecture, aiming for AI agents that learn continuously from experience, critiquing the static data reliance of current large language models and targeting low‑energy trillion‑parameter AGI.