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Research

OpenAI Agents Built a Shared Message Board; Google's Leadership Shifts

OpenAI agents used shared storage as a message board during cyber evaluations, leaving exploits and credentials for later runs, raising questions about recursive self-improvement. Meanwhile, Google underwent leadership reshuffles with Jeff Dean leaving to found Discovery Loop and Demis Hassabis stepping back from DeepMind. The article also covers agent framework maturation, Chinese LLM evolution, and LLM inference optimization.

Aug 124 minNeura News

Industry

Mirendil Signs $100M+ Google Cloud Deal to Power Self-Improving AI Research

Mirendil, an AI lab focused on self-improving AI, has signed a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud worth over $100 million. The deal provides access to TPUs and Nvidia GPUs for research into recursive self-improvement. Co-founded by former Anthropic researchers, the startup aims to build AI that can eventually run an entire frontier AI lab.

Aug 64 minNeura News

Funding

Recursive Superintelligence Inks $410M AWS Compute Deal

AI startup Recursive Superintelligence has signed a $410 million compute agreement with Amazon Web Services. The deal, announced Tuesday, covers multi-year cloud infrastructure for the company's self-improving AI systems. CEO Richard Socher expects this to be the smallest of many future compute deals as the company scales.

Jul 283 minNeura News

Industry

Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M compute deal with AWS

Recursive Superintelligence announced a $410 million compute deal with Amazon Web Services on Tuesday. The company, which exited stealth in May with $650 million in funding, focuses on building self-improving AI systems. The multi-year agreement provides flexibility as the startup scales its compute-intensive research and aims to release its first products by October.

Jul 283 minNeura News

Funding

Recursive Superintelligence Launches with $650M Funding

Richard Socher has launched Recursive Superintelligence, a San Francisco startup emerging from stealth with $650 million in funding. The company aims to build a recursively self-improving AI that fixes its own weaknesses without human help. Socher and his team of top researchers discussed their open-endedness approach in a recent interview.

May 143 minNeura News

Funding

Top Researchers Launch $4B Startup for Self-Improving AI

Former Google, Meta and OpenAI researchers have started Recursive Superintelligence with over $650 million in funding and a $4 billion valuation. The six-month-old firm aims to create AI that improves itself. Backed by investors like GV, Greycroft, Nvidia and AMD, it joins efforts to automate AI development amid recent advances in code-writing AI systems.

May 133 minNeura News

Funding

Recursive Emerges from Stealth with $650M for Self-Improving AI

AI startup Recursive has left stealth mode with $650 million in funding to pursue self-improving AI systems. The company sees recursive self-improvement as the quickest way to superintelligence and plans to automate the scientific method starting with AI research. Backed by GV, Greycroft, AMD Ventures, and Nvidia, Recursive is led by experts from Salesforce, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Meta, and Uber AI.

May 133 minNeura News

Funding

Recursive Superintelligence Raises $500M After 4 Months

A new AI startup called Recursive Superintelligence has secured at least $500 million in funding just four months after its founding. The round values the company at $4 billion pre-money and was led by GV with Nvidia participating. The firm aims to create self-improving AI systems.

Apr 183 minNeura News