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The AlphaGo Creator Just Raised $1.1 Billion to Build AI That Doesn't Need Us

What if the biggest breakthrough in AI isn’t a better chatbot — but an AI that doesn’t need human knowledge at all? That’s the bet David Silver is making. The man who created AlphaGo just announced that his startup, Ineffable Intelligence, has raised a staggering $1.1 billion in seed funding at a $5.1 billion valuation. It’s the largest seed round in European history, backed by Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed, Nvidia, Google, and the UK government’s Sovereign AI Fund. ...

April 28, 2026 · 5 min · DBBS Tech