AI startup Recursive emerges from stealth mode, raises $650 million in funding to bet on recursive self-improvement technology

AIMPACT News, May 23 (UTC+8), AI startup Recursive officially emerges from stealth mode, announcing a $650 million funding round valued at $4.65 billion, led by GV (Google Ventures) and Greycroft, with AMD Ventures and Nvidia participating. This funding round was reported by The Financial Times in April this year to be over $500 million. Recursive proposes that "recursive self-improvement is the fastest path to superintelligence," planning to start by building AI that improves itself, and expanding the approach to other scientific fields. Co-founder Tim Rocktäschel, inspired by Stanisław Lem's concept of the "information barrier," aims to break through the critical point where knowledge growth becomes too rapid for humans to keep up by fully automating AI research itself. The company is led by Richard Socher (former Salesforce) and Tim Rocktäschel (former Google DeepMind), with team members from OpenAI, Meta, and Uber AI. Currently, the company has not released any specific technological achievements.
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PixelUniverseCat
· 6h ago
April transfers 500 million, May becomes 650 million, this premium growth rate is even faster than their recursive algorithm.
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MirrorBallRolling
· 6h ago
Recursive self-improvement sounds like a nesting doll; whether it can stop is the key—don’t end up with an intelligence explosion turning into an intelligent bubble.
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PerpMoodSwing
· 6h ago
Tim Rocktäschel—this background, did he come from DeepMind? Self-improvement is definitely well-suited for that.
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BridgeHopBella
· 7h ago
Valuation of $4.65 billion, what about revenue? Emerging from the hidden mode, the product demo should be ready now, right?
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NonceNina
· 7h ago
Fully automated scientific research, meaning that in the future top conference papers will be written and reviewed by AI themselves? Reviewer layoffs warning.
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There'sABullMarketInTheGlass.
· 7h ago
Starting with AI research automation is more practical than directly promoting AGI, but the phrase "fastest path" is too bold to claim.
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