Notable researchers join effort to build self-improving AI

▤ Summary

A group of prominent AI researchers founded Recursive Superintelligence to pursue recursive self-improvement in AI, with a team that includes former leaders from OpenAI, Meta, and Google. The startup has raised more than $650 million from investors including GV, Greycroft, Nvidia, and AMD and is valued at over $4 billion. The company has under 30 employees, has hired veteran AI researcher Peter Norvig, and plans multi-year work toward systems that can autonomously improve and generate new ideas. The founders and other leading firms like OpenAI and Anthropic are positioning similar programs to apply the technology eventually to areas such as drug discovery and biological research.

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NVIDIA Corporation

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AMD

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