AI startup Recursive Superintelligence has signed on to lease $410 million in compute from Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Recursive designs open-ended self-improving systems, emerging from stealth in May of this year with $650 million in funding and a $4.65bn valuation.
– Recursive Superintelligence via LinkedIn
The compute agreement is a multi-year deal, and Recursive's founder and CEO, Richard Socher, told TechCrunch that this is "likely going to be one of the smallest compute deals we're going to sign in the next few years."
"Partnering with AWS gives us the infrastructure to run self-improving AI research at a scale very few teams in the world are capable of," Socher added. "We've already shown our automated AI research system can outperform years of human optimization. As our research loops run autonomously, that advantage will compound. We’re excited to partner with AWS and make our system and its infrastructure the fastest at invention generation."
