Ineffable Intelligence, an AI startup founded by David Silver, has raised $1.1 billion in a seed funding round, achieving a $5.1 billion valuation. The round was co-led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from NVIDIA, Google, Index Ventures, and the UK government. The funding highlights the strong investor interest in AI ventures led by top-tier scientists. The company aims to develop a "super learner," an AI system capable of autonomous learning without human-generated data, which it compares to a scientific breakthrough akin to Darwin's theory of evolution. Silver, known for his work on DeepMind's AlphaGo, plans to leverage reinforcement learning to enable AI systems to discover new knowledge independently. This funding round is part of a broader trend of significant investments in AI startups, with Ineffable Intelligence's raise ranking among the largest this year. The involvement of major tech companies and government entities underscores the high stakes and potential of AI innovation.