by Maria Deutscher
Recursive Superintelligence Inc., a startup that hopes to develop self-improving artificial intelligence models, launched today with $650 million in funding.
Alphabet Inc.’s GV fund and Greycroft led the round. They were joined by Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s venture capital arm. Recursive says the investment values it at $4.65 billion.
The company was founded earlier this year by former Salesforce Inc. Chief Scientist Richard Socher. He earlier launched You.com Inc., a provider of application programming interfaces that AI models use to perform online research. The startup received a $1.5 billion valuation last year.
According to the New York Times, Recursive’s initial team comprised Socher and six other staffers. The company now has more than 25 employees in San Francisco and London. They’re working to build so-called recursive self-improving superintelligence, or an AI model that can discover new knowledge similarly to human scientists.
