Richard Socher on Recursive Self-Improvement: Compressing Years of AI Research into Weeks
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Richard Socher 从 You.com 分拆出新公司 Recursive，种子轮融了 46.5 亿美元，估值 50 亿。他要做一台“尤里卡机器”，让 AI 自己学会搞发明。他们拿出的早期结果是：一个系统在不到两天里，做 GPU 内核优化就超过了人类和现有智能体，而且团队里没有 CUDA 专家。Socher 认为，现在需要几千人干几年的 AI ...
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Richard Socher spun Recursive out of You.com with a $4.65B seed round at a $5B valuation. He is building a 'Eureka Machine' that automates invention itself. Early results: their system beat humans and existing agents on GPU kernel optimization in under two days, without CUDA experts. Socher argues AI research that now takes thousands of people and years could shrink to weeks. The conversation also covers reward hacking, whether Anthropic-style constitutions actually work, open-source as geopolitical soft power, and what happens when AI systems start setting their own goals.