Richard Socher launches Recursive Superintelligence to develop self-improving AI

May 14, 2026

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Richard Socher has founded Recursive Superintelligence, a startup focused on creating AI that can autonomously improve itself. With $650 million in funding, the company aims to achieve recursive self-improvement, a significant goal in AI research, through a unique approach emphasizing open-endedness.

Richard Socher, known for founding You.com and his work on Imagenet, has launched Recursive Superintelligence in San Francisco with $650 million in funding.
The startup aims to develop a recursively self-improving AI model that can identify and rectify its own weaknesses without human intervention.
Socher is joined by notable AI researchers, including Peter Norvig and Tim Shi, and emphasizes a unique approach that focuses on open-endedness to achieve true recursive self-improvement.
The concept of open-endedness involves allowing AI to evolve and adapt continuously, similar to biological evolution.
Recursive Superintelligence plans to automate the entire process of ideation, implementation, and validation of research ideas, starting with AI research and potentially expanding to other fields.
The startup intends to create products within quarters rather than years, aiming to have a positive impact on humanity.
Socher believes that future advancements in AI will depend heavily on the allocation of computational resources to solve various global challenges.

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Richard Socher launches Recursive Superintelligence to develop self-improving AI

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