David Silver
Founder and CEO, Ineffable Intelligence; professor, University College London, as of 12 October 2026. Source: indexventures.com
Led the AlphaGo and AlphaZero teams at DeepMind; left in January 2026 to found Ineffable Intelligence, which raised a $1.1B seed round to pursue superintelligence through reinforcement learning instead of LLMs.
Role changes
Ineffable Intelligence announces a $1.1B seed round at a $5.1B valuation with Silver as CEO cityam.com
Reported to have left Google DeepMind, where he led reinforcement-learning research, to found Ineffable Intelligence (director since Jan 16, 2026) fortune.com
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Bio
British computer scientist. At DeepMind he led the teams behind AlphaGo and AlphaZero and the company’s reinforcement-learning research. No X account was verified for him.