Tim Rocktaschel, co-founder of Recursive Superintelligence, says his company can build recursive self-improving AI within roughly two years.
Recursive Superintelligence, a London-based startup founded in mid-May 2026, has raised $650 million in funding at a valuation of approximately $4.65 billion. That round could swell to $1 billion. The investor list includes GV (formerly Google Ventures), Nvidia, and AMD.
What “recursive self-improving AI” actually means
Most AI today gets better because humans make it better. Researchers tweak architectures, gather more training data, fine-tune reward signals. Recursive self-improvement flips that dynamic. The idea is to build AI systems that can autonomously enhance their own capabilities, iterating on themselves without human intervention.
Recursive’s approach draws inspiration from two domains: evolution and automated scientific discovery. Instead of relying solely on traditional scaling methods, the company is betting that iterative self-improvement represents a different path to superintelligence.
