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The AI landscape is bifurcating between LLM scaling and RL-based approaches. Silver's move validates RL as a credible alternative, potentially shifting VC funding and talent away from pure LLM plays. This mirrors crypto's own evolution from monolithic chains to modular architectures, where specialization wins.

Ex-DeepMind scientist David Silver discusses his startup Ineffable, which is building an AI 'super learner' using reinforcement learning as an alternative path to large language models.