Recursive Superintelligence, founded by former Salesforce Chief Scientist Richard Socher alongside researchers from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Meta, emerged from stealth with $650 million in funding led by GV and Greycroft, with Nvidia and AMD also participating — valuing the four-month-old company with fewer than 30 employees at $4.65 billion. The startup’s core thesis is recursive self-improvement: building AI systems that autonomously identify their own weaknesses and redesign themselves without human involvement.