Recursive Superintelligence raised at least $500 million at a $4 billion pre-money valuation, reports Financial Times. The round was led by GV, formerly Google Ventures, with Nvidia joining as a strategic investor.
Founded in December 2025 by Richard Socher, Tim Rocktäschel, Josh Tobin, Jeff Clune, and Tim Shi, Recursive Superintelligence is tackling what many see as the hardest problem in AI: building systems that can improve themselves.
The startup says it can remove this bottleneck by automating the whole AI development process, including evaluation, data selection, training, post-training, and research direction. So far, there’s no product.
Recursive Superintelligence is one of several new labs working on the next wave of AI architecture. Others include AMI Labs, started by Yann LeCun and focused on world models, and Ineffable Intelligence, founded by David Silver and centred on reinforcement learning.
The company plans a public launch around mid-May 2026. With 20 employees and a $4 billion valuation, the company’s progress will show whether the $500 million investment was forward-thinking or premature.
