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Intelligence Verdict
AI startups · New frontier labs

Ineffable Intelligence

“mission is to make first contact with superintelligence” David Silver, quoted by Quartz, company-reported

  • $5.1Bvaluation at its last closed round, Apr 27, 2026
  • 2025founded
  • Nothing public foundby our search
The facts

Ineffable Intelligence at a glance.

Read Oct 20, 2026. Valuations and amounts are copied as each source states them; a figure that is only reported (talks, or people familiar with the deal) is labeled as reported.

Kind of company
New frontier labsStart-ups building general AI models to rival the biggest labs.
Based in
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2025Quartz, Apr 27, 2026
Last closed-round valuation
$5.1B$5.1 billion (Reuters, Apr 27, 2026)
What it has shipped
Nothing public foundWe searched and found no product, model or paper, which is not proof there is none.
Founders
  • David Silver: former head of reinforcement learning at Google DeepMind and professor at University College London; led AlphaGo, AlphaZero and AlphaStar (Quartz, Apr 27, 2026)
Latest news

UK government's Sovereign AI unit says it is co-investing with the British Business Bank in Ineffable, its second direct investment in a couple of months. Oct 2026

Sovereign AI (UK government), Oct 2026

What it has built

Shipped, or not yet.

“Nothing public found” is what our search found: something the public can use or buy, a model or API, research only, or nothing public.

We found no product, model or paper from Ineffable Intelligence that the public can see. That is not proof there is none.

1 round

Funding, as reported.

Every round we found, with the amount, valuation and investors as the source states them.

WhenRoundAmountValuationInvestors namedSource
Apr 27, 2026Seed$1.1 billion$5.1 billionSequoia Capital (co-lead), Lightspeed (co-lead), Nvidia, Google, UK Sovereign AI, British Business Bank ($20 million)Reuters
Our note

Worth knowing.

Our note: Reuters calls it Europe's largest seed financing to date. Founded November 2025 per Quartz. Building a 'superlearner' that learns from its own experience rather than human data; could also be read as self-improving. No product found in pages fetched.