Recursive Superintelligence

Building self-improving AI toward superintelligence.

San Francisco, United States · Founded 2025 · $1.1B raised

Employees
1–10
Founded
2025
Business Model
B2B
Total Funding
$1.1B
Last Round
$650.0M SeedMay 2026
Rounds
2

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About

Recursive Superintelligence is a research-stage AI startup building self-improving AI systems aimed at achieving superintelligence. Founded by Richard Socher (former Chief Scientist at Salesforce and founder of You.com) and Tim Rocktäschel (AI professor at University College London and formerly principal scientist at Google DeepMind), the roughly 20-person team also includes former OpenAI researchers and alumni from Google and Meta. The company aims to build AI that continuously improves itself without human involvement — an approach many researchers consider a critical path to superintelligence far surpassing human capabilities. The startup raised $500M at a $4B pre-money valuation led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Nvidia, with the round oversubscribed enough to potentially reach $1B.

Summary

Recursive Superintelligence is an Artificial Intelligence company based in San Francisco, United States, founded in 2025. It has raised $1.1B in total across 2 rounds, most recently a $650.0M Seed round in May 2026. Investors include GV, Greycroft and AMD Ventures.

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Funding History

SeedMay 2026
$650.0M

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