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Apr 27, 2026

David Silver's Ineffable Intelligence Raises $1.1 Billion Seed Round at $5.1 Billion Valuation

Former Google DeepMind researcher David Silver raised a record $1.1 billion seed funding for Ineffable Intelligence, a British AI lab founded months ago focused on building AI that learns without human data. The company is valued at $5.1 billion.

Apr 27, 2026·2 sources
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Top claims

  • ▪Ineffable Intelligence's seed funding round was led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners
  • ▪Former staff at OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic and xAI raised hundreds of millions from investors for months-old ventures in the past year
  • ▪Recursive Superintelligence reportedly raised $500 million with enough demand to stretch that amount to $1 billion

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