Why you should work on AI for AI Research — Richard Socher of Recursive
Richard Socher's new lab Recursive, backed by $4.65B seed, targets AI systems that automate AI research itself.
Latent Space interviews Richard Socher, founder of You.com and AIX Ventures, about his new venture Recursive, which raised a $4.65 billion seed round to build the 'Eureka Machine' — a superintelligence for automating invention and AI research. Early claimed results include an AI research system outperforming humans and their agents on optimization tasks within two days, and NVIDIA GPU kernel improvements discovered without CUDA experts. Discussion spans reward hacking, constitutional AI critique, AI regulation, open-source models as geopolitical soft power, and hard-takeoff constraints.
- Recursive raised a $4.65B seed round for recursive self-improving AI research
- Claims AI system beat humans and agents on optimization tasks in under two days
- System improved NVIDIA GPU kernels without CUDA expert team
- Discusses reward hacking, alignment, and AI takeoff constraints
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Richard Socher is an NLP OG and CEO of You. com, who has now spun out an even more ambitious startup focused on RSI — already worth $5B!
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