Jürgen Schmidhuber

“Chief Scientific Advisor at Sakana AI working on agent-native LLMs and world models, co-authored the World Models paper with Sakana's founder eight years ago.”

“Co-authored a 2018 Google Brain paper that popularized the concept of world models trained from visual domain.”

“Surveys modern AI agents and self-improving systems in a paper on autonomous adaptation.”

“Described as the uncrowned godfather of AI; mentored Zhuge Mingchen who is now at Recursive Intelligence and organizes recursive self-improvement research.”

“Co-author of Neural Computers paper proposing learned runtime states for video generation; pioneer of world model concept in machine learning.”

“Legendary AI researcher who conceptualized generative models, world models, and aspects of GANs; co-author of papers on world models and benchmarking.”

“Cited for 1990 vision on making the world differentiable and foundational work in reinforcement learning.”

“AI researcher who proposed the Gödel Machine concept decades ago, which inspired the Darwin-Gödel Machine self-improving AI system.”

“Co-author of Neural Computers paper on new computing paradigm.”

“Published foundational work on World Models in 1990 and co-authored the 2018 World Models paper with David Ha.”