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

Richard Sutton, 2024 Turing Award winner and co-founder of modern reinforcement learning, has launched a new startup called Oak Lab in Toronto. He calls current deep learning methods "weak and inefficient" and wants to build AI agents that learn continuously from their environment. The article Turing Award winner Rich Sutton founds Oak Lab to build AI agents that learn on their own appeared first on The Decoder .

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Published: 13 July 2026
Source: The Decoder
Category: News
Topics: Agents & autonomy · Environment
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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ethics.ai (13 July 2026), “Turing Award winner Rich Sutton founds Oak Lab to build AI agents that learn on their own,” evidence record 2676, https://ethics.ai/record/2676 (originally published by The Decoder).

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