Nvidia To Partner With British Startup To Work On ‘Next Frontier Of AI’
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company will partner with British startup Ineffable Intelligence to develop new AI systems.
Ineffable, founded by David Silver, a former top scientist at Google’s DeepMind, focuses on reinforcement learning, where AI models learn from experience, rather than human data. It announced a $1.1 billion seed round in April co-led by Sequoia and Lightspeed.
“The system will train on rich forms of experience that are quite distinct from human language and other human data, and may require novel model architectures and training algorithms,” the company said.
Ineffable and Nvidia will enter an engineering-level collaboration with Nvidia to build “AI systems that learn by trial and error,” particularly a pipeline that can feed reinforcement learning systems at scale.
Huang called that the “next frontier of AI.” “We are thrilled to partner with Ineffable Intelligence to codesign the infrastructure for large-scale reinforcement learning as they push the frontier of AI and pioneer a new generation of intelligent systems,” he added.
Silver, on his end, said “researchers have largely solved the easier problem of AI: how to build systems that know all the things humans already know.”
“But now we need to solve the harder problem of AI: how to build systems that discover new knowledge for themselves. That requires a very different approach — systems that learn from experience,” he added.
Huang is encouraging people to enter the AI world, recently telling thousands of graduates at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh that artificial intelligence is opening what he described as a rare industrial expansion moment, urging them to “run, don’t walk” toward the sector as demand accelerates across computing and infrastructure.
Speaking to about 5,800 undergraduate and graduate students, Huang said the rapid buildout of AI systems is already driving demand far beyond software engineering, extending into traditional trades and manufacturing roles tied to physical infrastructure.
“No generation has entered the world with more powerful tools — or greater opportunities — than you,” Huang said during the commencement address, adding that a “new industry is being born” alongside “a new era of science and discovery.” The remarks were delivered as part of CMU’s graduation ceremony, Axios noted.
Huang, founder and chief executive of Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company by market capitalization, said the AI sector’s expansion will require large-scale labor across multiple industries, including construction and utilities. He pointed specifically to roles such as electricians, plumbers, ironworkers, and builders needed for chip fabrication plants, data centers, and advanced manufacturing sites.
