Oak Lab
Oak Lab: Building superintelligence on 20 watts through real-time, experience-driven learning.
- Category
- AI & Machine Learning
- Launched
- July 14, 2026
- Stage
- Seed
- Founder
- Richard Sutton
- Website
- oaklab.ai
In an AI landscape obsessed with ever larger datasets and exponential compute, Oak Lab is a deliberate counterweight. The boutique research lab, co founded by Richard Sutton—a name synonymous with reinforcement learning—is betting that the future of intelligence lies not in curated data but in real time experience. Its stated ambition is audacious: a trillion parameter AI agent running on just 20 watts of power. That's roughly the energy budget of a human brain, and it's a target that flies in the face of every scaling law the industry has come to worship. Oak Lab's thesis is simple yet radical: the path to superintelligence is not through memorizing the internet but through learning from the flow of experience, just as animals and humans do. This article unpacks the lab's research agenda, its architectural vision, and the philosophical roots that make it one of the most intriguing bets in AI today.
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