Recursive Superintelligence, a London-based AI company incorporated four months ago, has raised $500m at a $4bn valuation, reports suggest.
The round was led by Google Ventures, with participation from chipmaker Nvidia, according to the Financial Times, which first reported the news.
Recursive Superintelligence was founded by Tim Rocktäschel, a professor of AI at University College London and previously a scientist at Google DeepMind, and Richard Socher, former chief scientist at Salesforce.
The company currently has about 20 people in its team, including former OpenAI researchers Josh Tobin, Jeff Clune and Tim Shi, as well as others from Google and Meta.
Recursive wants to build an AI system that improves itself, a function many see as key to reaching superintelligence. The concept remains at the research stage.
It’s part of a cohort of AI labs aiming to build the next wave of models: from AMI Labs, which was founded by Yann LeCun and is focused on building world models, to Ineffable Intelligence, founded by David Silver and focused on reinforcement learning.
