Recursive Superintelligence Raises $650M at $4.65 Billion Valuation to Build Self-Improving AI
A four-month-old startup just raised $650 million to build AI that improves itself.
Background
Recursive Superintelligence, founded by former leaders from Meta AI, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Salesforce AI, and Uber AI, has emerged from stealth with a $4.65 billion valuation. The company is led by Richard Socher and co-founded by Yuandong Tian, formerly the director of FAIR at Meta.
Mission
The startup aims to build AI systems that can autonomously discover knowledge, optimize themselves continuously, and evolve in an open-ended loop, mirroring biological evolution but without the millions of years of waiting.
Investment Round
GV (Alphabet’s venture capital arm) and Greycroft led the round with participation from Nvidia and AMD. The involvement of these hardware companies suggests a growing recognition of recursive self-improvement as a significant compute opportunity.
Team
The founding team comprises seven co-founders, including renowned experts in AI research and development.
- Richard Socher: Former chief scientist at Salesforce and founder of You.com.
- Yuandong Tian: Former director of FAIR at Meta.
- Tim Rocktaschel: Professor of AI at University College London and former principal scientist at Google DeepMind.
- Alexey Dosovitskiy: Author of the Vision Transformer (ViT) paper.
- Josh Tobin: Former OpenAI researcher.
- Other co-founders include Caiming Xiong, Tim Shi, and Jeff Clune.
Peter Norvig, co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, serves as an advisor.