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Jul 15, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Richard Sutton, 68, Launches Oak Lab to Build Real‑Time Learning Trillion‑Parameter Agents

Veteran reinforcement‑learning pioneer Richard Sutton announces the creation of Oak Lab, outlining a new Options‑and‑Knowledge architecture that aims to produce autonomous agents capable of continual, real‑time learning, and critiquing the current large‑language‑model paradigm as a dead‑end for true AI.