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

> Source: <https://the-decoder.com/turing-award-winner-rich-sutton-founds-oak-lab-to-build-ai-agents-that-learn-on-their-own/>
> Published: 2026-07-13 17:15:58+00:00

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.

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