Neolabs founders leave OpenAI Google DeepMind

Dozens of researchers and co-creators have left major AI labs like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta to found independent neolabs, raising billions of dollars despite having no products to show. The author explains that these founders are betting that current scaling methods and language-only models will not achieve AGI, prompting them to target fundamental research gaps in continual learning, spatial intelligence, and non-internet data. Open article →