Recursive Superintelligence
AI that improves AI: a system that finds its own weaknesses and redesigns itself using open-ended algorithms, first automating AI research (ideation, implementation, validation), then applying the loop to other science.
- Founded
- 2025
- Headquarters
- London, with a San Francisco office
- Founders
- Richard Socher, Tim Rocktaschel, Yuandong Tian, Josh Tobin, Jeff Clune, Tim Shi, Caiming Xiong, Alexey Dosovitskiy
- Pushes against
- Human-run research pipelines; scaling a fixed architecture.
- Now
- Emerged from stealth 2026-05-13 with under 30 staff. Reported to have published benchmark results for an automated-research system; no public model. Bloomberg had reported the $4B-valuation talks in 2026-01.
Key people
- Richard Socher (CEO; ex-Salesforce chief scientist; also CEO of You.com)
- Tim Rocktaschel (co-founder; UCL, ex-DeepMind)
- Yuandong Tian (ex-Meta FAIR, reported)
Funding
- 13 May 2026
- Amount
- $650M
- Valuation
- $4.65B
- Lead
- GV and Greycroft (Nvidia, AMD participated)
Every funding round in the atlas
Sources
- tech.eu/2026/05/13/recursive-superintelligence-emerges-from-stealth-with-650m-raise/
- cnbc.com/2026/04/27/deepmind-ineffable-intelligence-record-seed-funding-nvidia-google.html
- vccafe.com/ai-neo-labs-have-raised-11-6-billion-what-have-they-shipped/
- bostonglobe.com/2026/05/13/business/effort-self-improving-ai/
- startupfortune.com/ex-meta-researcher-tian-yuandong-launches-a-465-billion-ai-bet/
- implicator.ai/recursive-superintelligence-raises-500m-from-gv-and-nvidia-at-4b-valuation/
- bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-23/ai-startup-recursive-in-funding-talks-at-4-billion-
This profile was checked and corrected against its sources on 6 October 2026. How we check