{"slug": "richard-sutton-breaks-away-from-keen-ai-to-start-oak-lab", "title": "Richard Sutton Breaks Away from Keen AI to Start Oak Lab", "summary": "Richard Sutton and Khurram Javed have left Keen Technologies to found Oak Lab, a new startup focused on advancing reinforcement learning and developing fundamentally new ideas for AI, diverging from current deep learning methods.", "body_md": "I can’t say enough good things about John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack and his Keen Technologies. But now Khurram Javed @kjaved_ and I have broken away to start our own startup and pursue a slightly different path toward understanding intelligence. Like Keen (and like Ineffable) we at Oak Lab @oaklab_ai believe in reinforcement learning and that intelligence is created and maintained from run-time experience. But we think current deep learning methods are weak and inefficient, and need not more tweaks, but fundamentally new ideas and a thorough reworking before they can provide a solid foundation for achieving the more ambitious goals of AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/richard-sutton-breaks-away-from-keen-ai-to-start-oak-lab", "canonical_source": "https://twitter.com/RichardSSutton/status/2076663628301058329", "published_at": "2026-07-13 14:24:46+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-13 14:36:09.163347+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["Richard Sutton", "John Carmack", "Khurram Javed", "Keen Technologies", "Oak Lab", "Ineffable"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/richard-sutton-breaks-away-from-keen-ai-to-start-oak-lab", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/richard-sutton-breaks-away-from-keen-ai-to-start-oak-lab.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/richard-sutton-breaks-away-from-keen-ai-to-start-oak-lab.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/richard-sutton-breaks-away-from-keen-ai-to-start-oak-lab.jsonld"}}