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2026-07-02 · 16:22 UTC ·@RichardSSutton ·0 min read

Brief

Richard S. Sutton highlights former DeepMind Alberta researchers now applying reinforcement learning to financial trading; Martin Schmid (@Lifrordi) advertises openings at EquiLibre Technologies, a frontier AI trading lab that builds its own foundational models, proprietary RL algorithms, and trades the company’s own money. Related links: equilibre.ai and a TechCrunch piece dated 2026-06-30.

Why it matters

Richard S. Sutton (tweeted 2026-07-02) says former DeepMind Alberta colleagues are applying reinforcement learning to financial trading “with great success.”

Key details

  • Martin Schmid (@Lifrordi) is recruiting researchers and engineers for EquiLibre Technologies, a trading research lab that trains its own foundation models, develops proprietary RL algorithms, and trades the firm’s own capital.
  • Public links include EquiLibre’s site (equilibre.ai) and a TechCrunch article published 2026-06-30 about the company.
Source evidence

My friends from the former DeepMind Alberta have gone on to do RL for financial trading with great success!

Martin Schmid (@Lifrordi)

We are looking for more amazing researchers and engineers to join our team. EquiLibre Technologies is a frontier AI trading research lab. We train our own foundational models, use our own RL algorithms, and trade our own money.

The proof is in the pudding. [THREAD]

equilibre.ai

techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/th…

— https://nitter.net/Lifrordi/status/2072664533491921289#m