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Turing Award winner Rich Sutton founds Oak Lab to build AI agents that learn on their own

Jul 13, 2026

Richard Sutton, 2024 Turing Award winner and co-founder of modern reinforcement learning, has launched a new startup called Oak Lab in Toronto. Sutton criticizes current deep learning methods as "weak and inefficient" and aims to develop AI agents that learn continuously from their environment.

Why it matters: Sutton's new venture could influence AI research by promoting more autonomous, reinforcement-learning-based agents.

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