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Tim Rocktäschel co-founds Recursive to automate AI research

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Recursive launches as a new company to automate the scientific method beginning with AI research. Co-founder Tim Rocktäschel is Professor of AI at UCL Centre for AI. The startup plans to convert compute into accumulated knowledge through open-ended automated discoveries and to build systems that can safely experiment on self-improvement. Emad publicly congratulated the Recursive team on the launch.

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Excited to co-found Recursive (@recursive_si) with an exceptional team in London and SF to create AI that experiments on how to safely improve itself, turning compute into knowledge that accumulates in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discoveries.

2:17 AM · May 13, 2026 View on X
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@jeffclune congrats on the launch, @jeffclune !

Jeff Clune@jeffclune

http://x.com/i/article/2054633656803844096

6:58 PM · May 13, 2026 · 36.4K Views
1:14 AM · May 14, 2026 · 1K Views

Today @Recursive_SI emerges from stealth to build self-improving superintelligence.

Founded by @RichardSocher, @_rockt, @jeffclune, @timshi_ai, @tydsh, @CaimingXiong, Alexey Dosovitskiy & @josh_tobin_, @aixventureshq backed them from day one.

The company is building AI that safely improves itself, in an open-ended process of automated scientific discovery.

Read more in the @nytimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/technology/notable-researchers-join-4-billion-effort-to-build-self-improving-ai.html

3:06 PM · May 13, 2026 · 34.1K Views

Here's an article from the NYTimes about the launch https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/technology/recursive-superintelligence-funding-ai.html

Richard Socher@RichardSocher

http://x.com/i/article/2054589416744812544

3:55 PM · May 13, 2026 · 63.3K Views
4:09 PM · May 13, 2026 · 5.1K Views

@j_foerst 🙏

Jakob Foerster@j_foerst

Big news coming out of London -- the AI scientist space keeps heating up with another huge player entering the arena! Congrats to @_rockt and team!

11:05 AM · May 13, 2026 · 6K Views
11:06 AM · May 13, 2026 · 312 Views

@jeffclune #SquadGoals 🫶

Jeff Clune@jeffclune

Thrilled to share that we founded Recursive to create AI that safely conducts experiments on how to improve itself in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discovery. As I wrote in my 2019 AI-generating algorithms paper, this will likely be the fastest path to superintelligence. Our work since has shown the power of this approach. Excited to scale up and improve upon ideas like the Darwin Gödel Machine, HyperAgents, ADAS, OMNI, ALMA, The AI Scientist, PromptBreeder, Rainbow Teaming, Automated Capability Discovery, and other work on open-ended and AI-generating algorithms. We’ve assembled a dream team of researchers and significant resources to pursue this vision. My amazing co-founders are pictured here, and we have an all-star team of founding members (we’re over 25 and growing). Please join us if you are interested! Follow our progress @Recursive_SI

1:30 PM · May 13, 2026 · 99.7K Views
1:53 PM · May 13, 2026 · 348 Views

So excited to have Sarah support us at @Recursive_SI. She has been following our founder's Open-Endedness research for many years... even before it was cool. I have rarely seen a VC that is that deeply knowledgeable and opinionated (and correct) about future AI trends.

Sarah Catanzaro@sarahcat21

For the past few years, we’ve been thinking about the impact of open endedness on the pursuit of AGI. Through our exploration, we’ve met some of the most talented researchers and engineers automating scientific discovery. When all of our “top people” decided to start a company together, we knew we had to be involved. Coding agents may help implement experiments but the step to building automated research agents is going to be hard; harder than most anticipate. This team can figure it out. And…I always back Josh. You’re stuck with me :)

9:29 PM · May 13, 2026 · 13.5K Views
9:51 PM · May 13, 2026 · 8.7K Views

@Mascobot @timshi_ai @RichardSocher Thank you Marco! :)

Marco Mascorro@Mascobot

Congrats @timshi_ai, @RichardSocher, @_rockt & Team!

7:22 PM · May 13, 2026 · 2.8K Views
7:25 PM · May 13, 2026 · 308 Views

Excited to co-found Recursive (@recursive_si) with an exceptional team in London and SF to create AI that experiments on how to safely improve itself, turning compute into knowledge that accumulates in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discoveries.

9:17 AM · May 13, 2026 · 215.7K Views

At Recursive, we believe this information barrier can be overcome by fully automating the scientific method, starting with AI research itself.

Tim Rocktäschel@_rockt

In his 1964 book Summa Technologiae, Stanisław Lem argued that humanity will hit an “information barrier” — a point where the volume and fragmentation of information exceed humanity’s ability to filter, interpret, and integrate it into a coherent body of knowledge.

9:17 AM · May 13, 2026 · 8.5K Views
9:17 AM · May 13, 2026 · 5.5K Views

In his 1964 book Summa Technologiae, Stanisław Lem argued that humanity will hit an “information barrier” — a point where the volume and fragmentation of information exceed humanity’s ability to filter, interpret, and integrate it into a coherent body of knowledge.

Tim Rocktäschel@_rockt

Excited to co-found Recursive (@recursive_si) with an exceptional team in London and SF to create AI that experiments on how to safely improve itself, turning compute into knowledge that accumulates in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discoveries.

9:17 AM · May 13, 2026 · 215.7K Views
9:17 AM · May 13, 2026 · 8.5K Views

@EMostaque @Recursive_SI Thank you Emad 🙏

Emad@EMostaque

@_rockt @Recursive_SI Congrats! Looking forward to the breakthroughs 🇬🇧 🚀

9:38 AM · May 13, 2026 · 1.4K Views
9:39 AM · May 13, 2026 · 1.1K Views

@Tim_Dettmers @Recursive_SI Thank you Tim!

Tim Dettmers@Tim_Dettmers

@_rockt @Recursive_SI Congrats, Tim! Excited to see what you are building!

7:44 PM · May 13, 2026 · 574 Views
7:50 PM · May 13, 2026 · 295 Views

🔥🔥🔥

Jenny Zhang@jennyzhangzt

I’ve joined Recursive to build self-improving AI. AI that safely improves itself through an open-ended journey toward superintelligence.

4:42 PM · May 13, 2026 · 13.5K Views
5:14 PM · May 13, 2026 · 3.6K Views

Darwin and Gödel would be proud! 🧫🧪⚗️🚀

Jeff Clune@jeffclune

I'm particularly delighted to have three former and current members of my UBC lab join @Recursive_SI: the amazing Cong Lu @cong_ml, Jenny Zhang @jennyzhangzt, and Shengran @shengranhu. 🚀✨🧪⚗️💡

1:46 PM · May 13, 2026 · 6.8K Views
1:56 PM · May 13, 2026 · 4.5K Views

@_rockt @Recursive_SI Congrats, Tim! Excited to see what you are building!

Tim Rocktäschel@_rockt

Excited to co-found Recursive (@recursive_si) with an exceptional team in London and SF to create AI that experiments on how to safely improve itself, turning compute into knowledge that accumulates in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discoveries.

9:17 AM · May 13, 2026 · 215.7K Views
7:44 PM · May 13, 2026 · 574 Views

@sarahcat21 Thank you for your kind words and all your support, Sarah!! @sarahcat21

Sarah Catanzaro@sarahcat21

For the past few years, we’ve been thinking about the impact of open endedness on the pursuit of AGI. Through our exploration, we’ve met some of the most talented researchers and engineers automating scientific discovery. When all of our “top people” decided to start a company together, we knew we had to be involved. Coding agents may help implement experiments but the step to building automated research agents is going to be hard; harder than most anticipate. This team can figure it out. And…I always back Josh. You’re stuck with me :)

9:29 PM · May 13, 2026 · 13.5K Views
9:52 PM · May 13, 2026 · 495 Views

@togelius @_rockt @RichardSocher A huge thank you, Julian! 🙏 ✨ 🧪⚗️💡📊 🚀

Julian Togelius@togelius

Congratulations to @jeffclune @_rockt @RichardSocher and the rest of the team! Impressive start, and good luck on the journey!

2:18 PM · May 13, 2026 · 1.8K Views
2:19 PM · May 13, 2026 · 246 Views

Thrilled to share that we founded Recursive to create AI that safely conducts experiments on how to improve itself in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discovery. As I wrote in my 2019 AI-generating algorithms paper, this will likely be the fastest path to superintelligence. Our work since has shown the power of this approach. Excited to scale up and improve upon ideas like the Darwin Gödel Machine, HyperAgents, ADAS, OMNI, ALMA, The AI Scientist, PromptBreeder, Rainbow Teaming, Automated Capability Discovery, and other work on open-ended and AI-generating algorithms. We’ve assembled a dream team of researchers and significant resources to pursue this vision. My amazing co-founders are pictured here, and we have an all-star team of founding members (we’re over 25 and growing).

Please join us if you are interested! Follow our progress @Recursive_SI

1:30 PM · May 13, 2026 · 99.7K Views

I'm particularly delighted to have three former and current members of my UBC lab join @Recursive_SI: the amazing Cong Lu @cong_ml, Jenny Zhang @jennyzhangzt, and Shengran @shengranhu. 🚀✨🧪⚗️💡

Jeff Clune@jeffclune

Thrilled to share that we founded Recursive to create AI that safely conducts experiments on how to improve itself in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discovery. As I wrote in my 2019 AI-generating algorithms paper, this will likely be the fastest path to superintelligence. Our work since has shown the power of this approach. Excited to scale up and improve upon ideas like the Darwin Gödel Machine, HyperAgents, ADAS, OMNI, ALMA, The AI Scientist, PromptBreeder, Rainbow Teaming, Automated Capability Discovery, and other work on open-ended and AI-generating algorithms. We’ve assembled a dream team of researchers and significant resources to pursue this vision. My amazing co-founders are pictured here, and we have an all-star team of founding members (we’re over 25 and growing). Please join us if you are interested! Follow our progress @Recursive_SI

1:30 PM · May 13, 2026 · 99.7K Views
1:46 PM · May 13, 2026 · 6.8K Views

NYT Article on Recursive https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/technology/notable-researchers-join-4-billion-effort-to-build-self-improving-ai.html?searchResultPosition=1

Jeff Clune@jeffclune

Thrilled to share that we founded Recursive to create AI that safely conducts experiments on how to improve itself in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discovery. As I wrote in my 2019 AI-generating algorithms paper, this will likely be the fastest path to superintelligence. Our work since has shown the power of this approach. Excited to scale up and improve upon ideas like the Darwin Gödel Machine, HyperAgents, ADAS, OMNI, ALMA, The AI Scientist, PromptBreeder, Rainbow Teaming, Automated Capability Discovery, and other work on open-ended and AI-generating algorithms. We’ve assembled a dream team of researchers and significant resources to pursue this vision. My amazing co-founders are pictured here, and we have an all-star team of founding members (we’re over 25 and growing). Please join us if you are interested! Follow our progress @Recursive_SI

1:30 PM · May 13, 2026 · 99.7K Views
2:01 PM · May 13, 2026 · 2.8K Views

When I first wanted to get into AI, my father bought me the leading textbook on AI. I've since taught it many times in my university classes. It is an amazing full circle moment to have its co-author the great Peter Norvig join us at Recursive. Here's a screenshot from the New York Times article by @CadeMetz

Jeff Clune@jeffclune

Thrilled to share that we founded Recursive to create AI that safely conducts experiments on how to improve itself in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discovery. As I wrote in my 2019 AI-generating algorithms paper, this will likely be the fastest path to superintelligence. Our work since has shown the power of this approach. Excited to scale up and improve upon ideas like the Darwin Gödel Machine, HyperAgents, ADAS, OMNI, ALMA, The AI Scientist, PromptBreeder, Rainbow Teaming, Automated Capability Discovery, and other work on open-ended and AI-generating algorithms. We’ve assembled a dream team of researchers and significant resources to pursue this vision. My amazing co-founders are pictured here, and we have an all-star team of founding members (we’re over 25 and growing). Please join us if you are interested! Follow our progress @Recursive_SI

1:30 PM · May 13, 2026 · 99.7K Views
2:19 PM · May 13, 2026 · 2.8K Views

@kenneth0stanley Thanks Ken! 🙏 ✨ 🧪⚗️💡📊 🚀

Kenneth Stanley@kenneth0stanley

@jeffclune Congrats to the new team, this company will be awesome!

3:24 PM · May 13, 2026 · 467 Views
3:43 PM · May 13, 2026 · 313 Views

also delighted to be joined by my co-first ever PhD student @anh_ng8 !!! 🙏 ✨ 🧪⚗️💡📊 🚀

Jeff Clune@jeffclune

Thrilled to share that we founded Recursive to create AI that safely conducts experiments on how to improve itself in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discovery. As I wrote in my 2019 AI-generating algorithms paper, this will likely be the fastest path to superintelligence. Our work since has shown the power of this approach. Excited to scale up and improve upon ideas like the Darwin Gödel Machine, HyperAgents, ADAS, OMNI, ALMA, The AI Scientist, PromptBreeder, Rainbow Teaming, Automated Capability Discovery, and other work on open-ended and AI-generating algorithms. We’ve assembled a dream team of researchers and significant resources to pursue this vision. My amazing co-founders are pictured here, and we have an all-star team of founding members (we’re over 25 and growing). Please join us if you are interested! Follow our progress @Recursive_SI

1:30 PM · May 13, 2026 · 99.7K Views
3:44 PM · May 13, 2026 · 991 Views

Always fun to make your own X news headlines

Jeff Clune@jeffclune

Thrilled to share that we founded Recursive to create AI that safely conducts experiments on how to improve itself in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discovery. As I wrote in my 2019 AI-generating algorithms paper, this will likely be the fastest path to superintelligence. Our work since has shown the power of this approach. Excited to scale up and improve upon ideas like the Darwin Gödel Machine, HyperAgents, ADAS, OMNI, ALMA, The AI Scientist, PromptBreeder, Rainbow Teaming, Automated Capability Discovery, and other work on open-ended and AI-generating algorithms. We’ve assembled a dream team of researchers and significant resources to pursue this vision. My amazing co-founders are pictured here, and we have an all-star team of founding members (we’re over 25 and growing). Please join us if you are interested! Follow our progress @Recursive_SI

1:30 PM · May 13, 2026 · 99.7K Views
6:27 PM · May 13, 2026 · 546 Views

@hardmaru Thank you David! I found your journey inspiring.

hardmaru@hardmaru

@jeffclune congrats on the launch, @jeffclune !

1:14 AM · May 14, 2026 · 1K Views
1:26 AM · May 14, 2026 · 612 Views

Big news coming out of London -- the AI scientist space keeps heating up with another huge player entering the arena! Congrats to @_rockt and team!

Tim Rocktäschel@_rockt

Excited to co-found Recursive (@recursive_si) with an exceptional team in London and SF to create AI that experiments on how to safely improve itself, turning compute into knowledge that accumulates in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discoveries.

9:17 AM · May 13, 2026 · 215.7K Views
11:05 AM · May 13, 2026 · 6K Views

@RichardSocher Woah! Stellar team. Congratulations, Richard!

Richard Socher@RichardSocher

http://x.com/i/article/2054589416744812544

3:55 PM · May 13, 2026 · 63.3K Views
5:57 PM · May 13, 2026 · 296 Views

@_rockt @Recursive_SI Congrats! Looking forward to the breakthroughs 🇬🇧 🚀

Tim Rocktäschel@_rockt

Excited to co-found Recursive (@recursive_si) with an exceptional team in London and SF to create AI that experiments on how to safely improve itself, turning compute into knowledge that accumulates in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discoveries.

9:17 AM · May 13, 2026 · 215.7K Views
9:38 AM · May 13, 2026 · 1.4K Views

@tydsh Congrats Yuandong!

Yuandong Tian@tydsh

Today we launch Recursive. We are building AI that discovers knowledge automatically and improves itself recursively, an open-ended process that will fundamentally change how science and technology advance. Our 25 top researchers and engineers in San Francisco and London bring diverse expertise spanning agentic AI scientists, architecture and algorithm design, world models, optimization, and interpretability, united by a shared conviction that this is the most important problem we could be working on today. If you are interested in joining, please send your resume to talent@recursive.com. Follow us at @Recursive_SI!

2:27 PM · May 13, 2026 · 135.4K Views
3:41 PM · May 13, 2026 · 1.4K Views

Great to work together along the journey @_rockt!

Tim Rocktäschel@_rockt

Excited to co-found Recursive (@recursive_si) with an exceptional team in London and SF to create AI that experiments on how to safely improve itself, turning compute into knowledge that accumulates in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discoveries.

9:17 AM · May 13, 2026 · 215.7K Views
3:56 PM · May 13, 2026 · 5K Views

Today we launch Recursive.

We are building AI that discovers knowledge automatically and improves itself recursively, an open-ended process that will fundamentally change how science and technology advance.

Our 25 top researchers and engineers in San Francisco and London bring diverse expertise spanning agentic AI scientists, architecture and algorithm design, world models, optimization, and interpretability, united by a shared conviction that this is the most important problem we could be working on today.

If you are interested in joining, please send your resume to talent@recursive.com. Follow us at @Recursive_SI!

2:27 PM · May 13, 2026 · 135.4K Views

@tydsh This is exciting Congrats

Yuandong Tian@tydsh

Today we launch Recursive. We are building AI that discovers knowledge automatically and improves itself recursively, an open-ended process that will fundamentally change how science and technology advance. Our 25 top researchers and engineers in San Francisco and London bring diverse expertise spanning agentic AI scientists, architecture and algorithm design, world models, optimization, and interpretability, united by a shared conviction that this is the most important problem we could be working on today. If you are interested in joining, please send your resume to talent@recursive.com. Follow us at @Recursive_SI!

2:27 PM · May 13, 2026 · 135.4K Views
8:15 PM · May 13, 2026 · 230 Views

@jeffclune @braneloop Congrats!

Jeff Clune@jeffclune

Thrilled to share that we founded Recursive to create AI that safely conducts experiments on how to improve itself in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discovery. As I wrote in my 2019 AI-generating algorithms paper, this will likely be the fastest path to superintelligence. Our work since has shown the power of this approach. Excited to scale up and improve upon ideas like the Darwin Gödel Machine, HyperAgents, ADAS, OMNI, ALMA, The AI Scientist, PromptBreeder, Rainbow Teaming, Automated Capability Discovery, and other work on open-ended and AI-generating algorithms. We’ve assembled a dream team of researchers and significant resources to pursue this vision. My amazing co-founders are pictured here, and we have an all-star team of founding members (we’re over 25 and growing). Please join us if you are interested! Follow our progress @Recursive_SI

1:30 PM · May 13, 2026 · 99.7K Views
3:24 PM · May 13, 2026 · 264 Views

@_rockt @Recursive_SI @sarahcat21 is literally *the best*, congrats to everyone at the Recursive team! 🥳🎉

Tim Rocktäschel@_rockt

So excited to have Sarah support us at @Recursive_SI. She has been following our founder's Open-Endedness research for many years... even before it was cool. I have rarely seen a VC that is that deeply knowledgeable and opinionated (and correct) about future AI trends.

9:51 PM · May 13, 2026 · 8.7K Views
11:24 PM · May 13, 2026 · 445 Views

@_rockt @Recursive_SI Congrats!

Tim Rocktäschel@_rockt

Excited to co-found Recursive (@recursive_si) with an exceptional team in London and SF to create AI that experiments on how to safely improve itself, turning compute into knowledge that accumulates in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discoveries.

9:17 AM · May 13, 2026 · 215.7K Views
9:57 AM · May 13, 2026 · 367 Views

@RichardSocher Massive congrats folks! Onwards!

Richard Socher@RichardSocher

http://x.com/i/article/2054589416744812544

3:55 PM · May 13, 2026 · 63.3K Views
8:43 PM · May 13, 2026 · 142 Views

Nice.

Tim Rocktäschel@_rockt

Excited to co-found Recursive (@recursive_si) with an exceptional team in London and SF to create AI that experiments on how to safely improve itself, turning compute into knowledge that accumulates in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discoveries.

9:17 AM · May 13, 2026 · 215.7K Views
9:03 AM · May 14, 2026 · 1.5K Views

Congratulations to my friends at Recursive, a major new force in open-ended AI! And yet another signal that open-endedness is increasingly the north star for the future of the field!

Jeff Clune@jeffclune

Thrilled to share that we founded Recursive to create AI that safely conducts experiments on how to improve itself in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discovery. As I wrote in my 2019 AI-generating algorithms paper, this will likely be the fastest path to superintelligence. Our work since has shown the power of this approach. Excited to scale up and improve upon ideas like the Darwin Gödel Machine, HyperAgents, ADAS, OMNI, ALMA, The AI Scientist, PromptBreeder, Rainbow Teaming, Automated Capability Discovery, and other work on open-ended and AI-generating algorithms. We’ve assembled a dream team of researchers and significant resources to pursue this vision. My amazing co-founders are pictured here, and we have an all-star team of founding members (we’re over 25 and growing). Please join us if you are interested! Follow our progress @Recursive_SI

1:30 PM · May 13, 2026 · 99.7K Views
3:23 PM · May 13, 2026 · 3.3K Views

@jeffclune Congrats to the new team, this company will be awesome!

Jeff Clune@jeffclune

Thrilled to share that we founded Recursive to create AI that safely conducts experiments on how to improve itself in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discovery. As I wrote in my 2019 AI-generating algorithms paper, this will likely be the fastest path to superintelligence. Our work since has shown the power of this approach. Excited to scale up and improve upon ideas like the Darwin Gödel Machine, HyperAgents, ADAS, OMNI, ALMA, The AI Scientist, PromptBreeder, Rainbow Teaming, Automated Capability Discovery, and other work on open-ended and AI-generating algorithms. We’ve assembled a dream team of researchers and significant resources to pursue this vision. My amazing co-founders are pictured here, and we have an all-star team of founding members (we’re over 25 and growing). Please join us if you are interested! Follow our progress @Recursive_SI

1:30 PM · May 13, 2026 · 99.7K Views
3:24 PM · May 13, 2026 · 467 Views

@_rockt @Tim_Dettmers @Recursive_SI Very exciting, congrats Tim & team!!

Tim Rocktäschel@_rockt

Excited to co-found Recursive (@recursive_si) with an exceptional team in London and SF to create AI that experiments on how to safely improve itself, turning compute into knowledge that accumulates in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discoveries.

9:17 AM · May 13, 2026 · 215.7K Views
10:35 PM · May 13, 2026 · 113 Views

@jeffclune Congrats Jeff, and best of luck!!

Jeff Clune@jeffclune

Thrilled to share that we founded Recursive to create AI that safely conducts experiments on how to improve itself in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discovery. As I wrote in my 2019 AI-generating algorithms paper, this will likely be the fastest path to superintelligence. Our work since has shown the power of this approach. Excited to scale up and improve upon ideas like the Darwin Gödel Machine, HyperAgents, ADAS, OMNI, ALMA, The AI Scientist, PromptBreeder, Rainbow Teaming, Automated Capability Discovery, and other work on open-ended and AI-generating algorithms. We’ve assembled a dream team of researchers and significant resources to pursue this vision. My amazing co-founders are pictured here, and we have an all-star team of founding members (we’re over 25 and growing). Please join us if you are interested! Follow our progress @Recursive_SI

1:30 PM · May 13, 2026 · 99.7K Views
6:18 AM · May 14, 2026 · 95 Views

@tydsh Congrats Yuandong!!

Yuandong Tian@tydsh

Today we launch Recursive. We are building AI that discovers knowledge automatically and improves itself recursively, an open-ended process that will fundamentally change how science and technology advance. Our 25 top researchers and engineers in San Francisco and London bring diverse expertise spanning agentic AI scientists, architecture and algorithm design, world models, optimization, and interpretability, united by a shared conviction that this is the most important problem we could be working on today. If you are interested in joining, please send your resume to talent@recursive.com. Follow us at @Recursive_SI!

2:27 PM · May 13, 2026 · 135.4K Views
6:22 AM · May 14, 2026 · 64 Views

@RichardSocher Congrats!!

Richard Socher@RichardSocher

http://x.com/i/article/2054589416744812544

3:55 PM · May 13, 2026 · 63.3K Views
6:24 AM · May 14, 2026 · 63 Views

@CaimingXiong @Recursive_SI Congrats Caiming, excited about what you'll be building!

Caiming Xiong@CaimingXiong

Today, we’re excited to launch Recursive (@recursive_si): an exceptional team across London and San Francisco, building AI systems that can safely improve their own capabilities over time.

3:48 PM · May 13, 2026 · 13.9K Views
5:15 AM · May 14, 2026 · 59 Views

@josh_tobin_ @Recursive_SI Wow! Big fan of your work as always, Josh. Looking forward to seeing more of the cool stuff you all are working on. Congrats!

Josh Tobin@josh_tobin_

Today we’re launching Recursive (@Recursive_SI) We’re building AI that automates science, starting with the science of how to improve itself. I’ve spent a lot of time building AI products and tools for AI teams. One thing that has always stood out is how much progress depends on the experimental loop: deciding what to try, implementing it, running it, understanding what happened, and repeating. Recursive is automating that loop, safely and at scale. Excited to work on this with an incredible team across SF and London.

2:54 PM · May 13, 2026 · 18.7K Views
3:15 PM · May 13, 2026 · 858 Views

Congratulations to @jeffclune @_rockt @RichardSocher and the rest of the team! Impressive start, and good luck on the journey!

Jeff Clune@jeffclune

Thrilled to share that we founded Recursive to create AI that safely conducts experiments on how to improve itself in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discovery. As I wrote in my 2019 AI-generating algorithms paper, this will likely be the fastest path to superintelligence. Our work since has shown the power of this approach. Excited to scale up and improve upon ideas like the Darwin Gödel Machine, HyperAgents, ADAS, OMNI, ALMA, The AI Scientist, PromptBreeder, Rainbow Teaming, Automated Capability Discovery, and other work on open-ended and AI-generating algorithms. We’ve assembled a dream team of researchers and significant resources to pursue this vision. My amazing co-founders are pictured here, and we have an all-star team of founding members (we’re over 25 and growing). Please join us if you are interested! Follow our progress @Recursive_SI

1:30 PM · May 13, 2026 · 99.7K Views
2:18 PM · May 13, 2026 · 1.8K Views

@jeffclune @jennyzhangzt Congrats @jeffclune !

Jeff Clune@jeffclune

Thrilled to share that we founded Recursive to create AI that safely conducts experiments on how to improve itself in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discovery. As I wrote in my 2019 AI-generating algorithms paper, this will likely be the fastest path to superintelligence. Our work since has shown the power of this approach. Excited to scale up and improve upon ideas like the Darwin Gödel Machine, HyperAgents, ADAS, OMNI, ALMA, The AI Scientist, PromptBreeder, Rainbow Teaming, Automated Capability Discovery, and other work on open-ended and AI-generating algorithms. We’ve assembled a dream team of researchers and significant resources to pursue this vision. My amazing co-founders are pictured here, and we have an all-star team of founding members (we’re over 25 and growing). Please join us if you are interested! Follow our progress @Recursive_SI

1:30 PM · May 13, 2026 · 99.7K Views
7:33 PM · May 13, 2026 · 129 Views

@_rockt @Recursive_SI Fantastic, congrats @_rockt @RichardSocher and the whole team!

Tim Rocktäschel@_rockt

Excited to co-found Recursive (@recursive_si) with an exceptional team in London and SF to create AI that experiments on how to safely improve itself, turning compute into knowledge that accumulates in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discoveries.

9:17 AM · May 13, 2026 · 215.7K Views
2:04 PM · May 13, 2026 · 117 Views

@_rockt @Recursive_SI Congrats Tim and team 🚀🚀

Tim Rocktäschel@_rockt

Excited to co-found Recursive (@recursive_si) with an exceptional team in London and SF to create AI that experiments on how to safely improve itself, turning compute into knowledge that accumulates in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discoveries.

9:17 AM · May 13, 2026 · 215.7K Views
4:22 PM · May 13, 2026 · 261 Views

@sarahcat21 Thanks Sarah, so glad to have you involved!

Sarah Catanzaro@sarahcat21

For the past few years, we’ve been thinking about the impact of open endedness on the pursuit of AGI. Through our exploration, we’ve met some of the most talented researchers and engineers automating scientific discovery. When all of our “top people” decided to start a company together, we knew we had to be involved. Coding agents may help implement experiments but the step to building automated research agents is going to be hard; harder than most anticipate. This team can figure it out. And…I always back Josh. You’re stuck with me :)

9:29 PM · May 13, 2026 · 13.5K Views
9:51 PM · May 13, 2026 · 386 Views

Today we’re launching Recursive (@Recursive_SI)

We’re building AI that automates science, starting with the science of how to improve itself.

I’ve spent a lot of time building AI products and tools for AI teams. One thing that has always stood out is how much progress depends on the experimental loop: deciding what to try, implementing it, running it, understanding what happened, and repeating.

Recursive is automating that loop, safely and at scale.

Excited to work on this with an incredible team across SF and London.

2:54 PM · May 13, 2026 · 18.7K Views

Check out our post for more info on what we're up to and our raise:

2:56 PM · May 13, 2026 · 2.5K Views

here's what the NYT wrote about us: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/technology/recursive-superintelligence-funding-ai.html

Josh Tobin@josh_tobin_

Check out our post for more info on what we're up to and our raise:

2:56 PM · May 13, 2026 · 2.5K Views
2:58 PM · May 13, 2026 · 991 Views

@omarsar0 @Recursive_SI thanks!

elvis@omarsar0

@josh_tobin_ @Recursive_SI Wow! Big fan of your work as always, Josh. Looking forward to seeing more of the cool stuff you all are working on. Congrats!

3:15 PM · May 13, 2026 · 858 Views
4:47 PM · May 13, 2026 · 241 Views

@tydsh @szxiangjn Congratulations!

Yuandong Tian@tydsh

Today we launch Recursive. We are building AI that discovers knowledge automatically and improves itself recursively, an open-ended process that will fundamentally change how science and technology advance. Our 25 top researchers and engineers in San Francisco and London bring diverse expertise spanning agentic AI scientists, architecture and algorithm design, world models, optimization, and interpretability, united by a shared conviction that this is the most important problem we could be working on today. If you are interested in joining, please send your resume to talent@recursive.com. Follow us at @Recursive_SI!

2:27 PM · May 13, 2026 · 135.4K Views
4:41 PM · May 13, 2026 · 363 Views

For the past few years, we’ve been thinking about the impact of open endedness on the pursuit of AGI. Through our exploration, we’ve met some of the most talented researchers and engineers automating scientific discovery. When all of our “top people” decided to start a company together, we knew we had to be involved.

Coding agents may help implement experiments but the step to building automated research agents is going to be hard; harder than most anticipate. This team can figure it out.

And…I always back Josh. You’re stuck with me :)

Josh Tobin@josh_tobin_

Today we’re launching Recursive (@Recursive_SI) We’re building AI that automates science, starting with the science of how to improve itself. I’ve spent a lot of time building AI products and tools for AI teams. One thing that has always stood out is how much progress depends on the experimental loop: deciding what to try, implementing it, running it, understanding what happened, and repeating. Recursive is automating that loop, safely and at scale. Excited to work on this with an incredible team across SF and London.

2:54 PM · May 13, 2026 · 18.7K Views
9:29 PM · May 13, 2026 · 13.5K Views

I think the key questions are:

- Is it better if powerful AI is made sooner or later? (It's will happen eventually.) - What's the best way to make powerful AI go better? The best levers may not be shifting things sooner or later.

This essay doesn't answer these questions. 1/

Jeff Clune@jeffclune

http://x.com/i/article/2054633656803844096

6:58 PM · May 13, 2026 · 36.4K Views
11:37 PM · May 13, 2026 · 7.4K Views

I currently think slowing down AI development at the right time reduces absolute existential risk (e.g. extinction) by >>1% per year of delay (for the first 3-10 years) which makes this clearly worth it. Slowing down now is more complex, but seems probably good at the margin. 2/

Ryan Greenblatt@RyanPGreenblatt

I think the key questions are: - Is it better if powerful AI is made sooner or later? (It's will happen eventually.) - What's the best way to make powerful AI go better? The best levers may not be shifting things sooner or later. This essay doesn't answer these questions. 1/

11:37 PM · May 13, 2026 · 7.4K Views
11:37 PM · May 13, 2026 · 1.2K Views

I think there are much more effective ways to make powerful AI go well than to contribute to advancing AI capabilities even if it was better if powerful AI came sooner. There are many other axes! E.g., you can work on technical safety/alignment, work on governance/advocacy. 3/

Ryan Greenblatt@RyanPGreenblatt

I currently think slowing down AI development at the right time reduces absolute existential risk (e.g. extinction) by >>1% per year of delay (for the first 3-10 years) which makes this clearly worth it. Slowing down now is more complex, but seems probably good at the margin. 2/

11:37 PM · May 13, 2026 · 1.2K Views
11:37 PM · May 13, 2026 · 1.1K Views

I think an argument for generally working on AI capabilities has to argue not just that powerful AI will be good, but that making it faster at the margin is good and that making it happen faster is among the best things to work on. 4/

Ryan Greenblatt@RyanPGreenblatt

I think there are much more effective ways to make powerful AI go well than to contribute to advancing AI capabilities even if it was better if powerful AI came sooner. There are many other axes! E.g., you can work on technical safety/alignment, work on governance/advocacy. 3/

11:37 PM · May 13, 2026 · 1.1K Views
11:37 PM · May 13, 2026 · 703 Views

Also, @jeffclune I'd be down to chat about any of this and what I think is good to do if you're interested. Or what I think Recursive Superintelligence should do.

Ryan Greenblatt@RyanPGreenblatt

I think an argument for generally working on AI capabilities has to argue not just that powerful AI will be good, but that making it faster at the margin is good and that making it happen faster is among the best things to work on. 4/

11:37 PM · May 13, 2026 · 703 Views
11:37 PM · May 13, 2026 · 708 Views

Today, we’re excited to launch Recursive (@recursive_si): an exceptional team across London and San Francisco, building AI systems that can safely improve their own capabilities over time.

3:48 PM · May 13, 2026 · 13.9K Views

Excited to work with cofounders Richard Socher (@RichardSocher), Tim Rocktaeschel (@_rockt ), Josh Tobin (@josh_tobin_), @CaimingXiong, @jeffclune, Yuandong Tian (@tydsh) and Alexey Dosovitskiy

And amazing authors from the AI Scientist paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10265-5, HyperAgents and Darwin Gödel Machine. @jeffclune @cong_ml @jennyzhangzt @shengranhu

4:35 PM · May 13, 2026 · 2.6K Views

Today we have come out of stealth @Recursive_SI 🥷

Excited to build with an incredible team in London and SF joining many threads I've been lucky to work on: AI Scientists, agentic self-improvement and open-endedness towards systems that can perform research on themselves! 🧑‍🔬

9:42 AM · May 13, 2026 · 14.3K Views