Recursive Superintelligence
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About
Recursive Superintelligence is an AI research lab building systems designed to improve themselves without human intervention 12. The London-incorporated company was founded in late 2025 by Richard Socher (former Salesforce chief scientist) and Tim Rocktäschel (until recently director and principal scientist at Google DeepMind, where his team won the ICML 2024 Best Paper Award for the Genie interactive world model) 23. The founding team of roughly 20 people includes former OpenAI researchers Josh Tobin, Jeff Clune, and Tim Shi, alongside alumni from Google and Meta 13. The company was incorporated in London on December 31, 2025, and raised its $500M seed round approximately four months after founding 23.
Funding History
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead | Co-investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-18 | Seed | $500M | GV | Nvidia 123 |
The round valued the company at $4 billion pre-money and was so oversubscribed it could eventually reach $1 billion in total commitments 23.
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“Self-improving AI startup Recursive Superintelligence pulls in $500 million just four months after founding,” The Decoder, April 2026. https://the-decoder.com/self-improving-ai-startup-recursive-superintelligence-pulls-in-500-million-just-four-months-after-founding/↩↩↩
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“Recursive Superintelligence Raises $500M at $4B Valuation,” Implicator.ai, April 2026. https://www.implicator.ai/recursive-superintelligence-raises-500m-from-gv-and-nvidia-at-4b-valuation/↩↩↩↩↩
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“Four-month-old Recursive Superintelligence raises $500m,” Sifted, April 2026. https://sifted.eu/articles/recursive-superintelligence-500m↩↩↩↩↩