
Danijar Hafner leaves DeepMind to build robots that plan for the unexpected
The 31-year-old creator of the Dreamer agent series left Google DeepMind in fall 2025 to launch a stealth robotics startup in San Francisco.
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The 31-year-old creator of the Dreamer agent series left Google DeepMind in fall 2025 to launch a stealth robotics startup in San Francisco.

Google DeepMind extends 15 years of games research from Atari to EVE Online with a new agent that collaborates with human players.

Radical Ventures led the Series A as the startup hit a $100M revenue run rate helping companies train their own models instead of renting frontier labs.

The Prague lab's reinforcement learning agents trade billions daily across the S&P 500 and Nasdaq with zero losing months since inception.

The Swiss startup, founded by ex-Nvidia researchers, stacks reinforcement learning across every layer to make humanoids work without a human puppeteer.

Anthropic sees early signs of recursive self-improvement, a new benchmark tests AI loophole-hunting, and RL drones beat a human champion at 22 m/s.

The London lab, founded by AlphaGo architect David Silver, will codesign reinforcement learning pipelines on Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin.
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