{"slug": "turing-award-winner-rich-sutton-founds-oak-lab-to-build-ai-agents-that-learn-on", "title": "Turing Award winner Rich Sutton founds Oak Lab to build AI agents that learn on their own", "summary": "Turing Award winner Richard Sutton has founded Oak Lab in Toronto to develop AI agents that learn continuously from their environment, criticizing current deep learning methods as weak and inefficient.", "body_md": "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.\n\nThe article [Turing Award winner Rich Sutton founds Oak Lab to build AI agents that learn on their own](https://the-decoder.com/turing-award-winner-rich-sutton-founds-oak-lab-to-build-ai-agents-that-learn-on-their-own/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/turing-award-winner-rich-sutton-founds-oak-lab-to-build-ai-agents-that-learn-on", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/turing-award-winner-rich-sutton-founds-oak-lab-to-build-ai-agents-that-learn-on-their-own/", "published_at": "2026-07-13 17:15:58+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-13 17:38:32.776066+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["Richard Sutton", "Oak Lab", "Toronto"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/turing-award-winner-rich-sutton-founds-oak-lab-to-build-ai-agents-that-learn-on", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/turing-award-winner-rich-sutton-founds-oak-lab-to-build-ai-agents-that-learn-on.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/turing-award-winner-rich-sutton-founds-oak-lab-to-build-ai-agents-that-learn-on.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/turing-award-winner-rich-sutton-founds-oak-lab-to-build-ai-agents-that-learn-on.jsonld"}}