Why fears of AI self-improvement are causing ‘existential’ concerns at Anthropic and OpenAI

AI researchers are warning that faster AI self-improvement could eventually make advanced systems harder for humans to ...
MIT Technology Review

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems. The AI industry’s ...
TechCrunch

Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M compute deal with Amazon

On Tuesday, the AI company Recursive Superintelligence announced a $410 million compute deal with Amazon Web Services. The company, which emerged from stealth in May with $650 million in funding, is ...
telecom.economictimes.indiatimes

Star AI researcher’s new lab in talks for $4 billion valuation

The funding discussions highlight ongoing investor demand for new and unproven research labs looking to find novel approaches to AI that push the technology forward. Recursive’s goal is to develop ...
nytimes.com

Notable Researchers Join $4 Billion Effort to Build Self-Improving A.I.

Recursive Superintelligence, founded by former Google, Meta and OpenAI researchers, is part of a growing effort to automate the creation of artificial intelligence. By Cade Metz Reporting from San ...
thenextweb.com

Recursive is spending two-thirds of its funding on one AWS bill, and calls it small

Richard Socher's Recursive has committed about two-thirds of its $650m raise to a single multi-year AWS contract, staffing like a seed startup while buying compute like a frontier lab. And it says ...