Given that GenAI is a statistical approach from which intelligence does not emerge as ample experience proves, does this new company plan to take a more human approach to simulating intelligence instead?
When was this proven?
Thats the whole eureka thing to understand... To compress well, you need to understand. To predict the next word, you need to undestand the world.
Ilya explains it here: https://youtu.be/GI4Tpi48DlA?t=1053
To survive is to predict the future better than the other animal. Survival of the fittest.
What about a more rational approach to implementing it instead.
(Which was not excluded from past plans: they just simply admittedly did not know the formula, and explored emergence. But the next efforts will have to go in the direction of attempting actual intelligence.)