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Frontier AI research lab pursuing recursive self-improvement. Emerged from stealth May 13, 2026 with a $650M round led by GV and Greycroft (with Nvidia and AMD Ventures) at a $4.65B valuation. Founded by Richard Socher with co-founders from DeepMind, Meta FAIR, OpenAI, and Salesforce AI.
| Name | Recursive |
|---|---|
| Aliases | Recursive Superintelligence |
| Space | AI research |
| Founded | 2025 |
| Latest valuation | $4.65B |
| Stage | — |
| Status | active |
| HQ | London |
| Founders | Richard Socher, Tim Rocktäschel, Josh Tobin, Jeff Clune, Tim Shi |
| Website | https://recursive.ai |
| Careers | — |
| — | |
| X / Twitter | — |
| Date | Round | Amount ($M) | Valuation | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | $4.65B | reported |
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| Date | Type | Title | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-03 | added | Recursive added to tracker Latest valuation: $4.65B. | — |
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| Lab | Valuation | Founded |
|---|---|---|
| Ai2 | — | 2014 |
| Epoch AI | — | 2022 |
| Eureka Labs | — | 2024 |
| Merge Labs | $850M | 2025 |
| Inherent | ~$200M | 2024 |