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May 15, 2026
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The Future of AI: Recursive Superintelligence Emerges with $650M Funding

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Richard Socher, a prominent AI researcher, has launched Recursive Superintelligence, a San Francisco-based startup focused on creating a recursively self-improving AI model with $650 million in funding.

The Emergence of Recursive Superintelligence

Richard Socher, known for founding You.com and his work on Imagenet, has joined the current generation of research-focused AI startups with Recursive Superintelligence, a San Francisco-based startup that came out of stealth with $650 million in funding.

The Vision for Recursive Self-Improvement

Socher, along with prominent AI researchers Peter Norvig and Tim Shi, aims to create a recursively self-improving AI model that can autonomously identify its own weaknesses and redesign itself to fix them without human involvement.

The Unique Approach: Open-Endedness

The startup's unique approach is to use open-endedness to achieve recursive self-improvement. This involves building a system that can automatically generate research ideas, implement, and validate them, potentially leading to a new kind of sense of self-awareness.

The Technical Meaning of Open-Endedness

  • Open-endedness refers to the ability of an AI system to create and interact with new concepts, worlds, and agents.
  • Examples include Google DeepMind's Genie 3 and rainbow teaming, where two AIs co-evolve to improve safety.

The Future of AI Research and Compute

Socher believes that compute will become the only important resource in the future of AI research, and the question will be how much compute humanity wants to spend to solve which problems.

The Path to Product Development

While Recursive Superintelligence is focused on research, Socher expects the company to develop products that people will love to use, with a positive impact on humanity, in the near future, with timelines potentially being pulled up.