Mountain in the Sea (2022)

Nayler places the artificial intelligence Evrim alongside a researcher's attempt to understand an octopus society. Those are different kinds of intelligence, and the novel gains from refusing to collapse them into one problem. Corporate control and human expectations shape whose communication can be recognised and on what terms. Choose this for several competing encounters with other minds, with a multi-stranded thriller around them rather than a single robot's coming-of-age story.