{"id":244937,"date":"2026-05-13T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/notable-researchers-join-4-billion-effort-to-build-self-improving-a-i\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T05:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:25:12","slug":"notable-researchers-join-4-billion-effort-to-build-self-improving-a-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/notable-researchers-join-4-billion-effort-to-build-self-improving-a-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Notable Researchers Join $4 Billion Effort to Build Self-Improving A.I."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/13\/technology\/notable-researchers-join-4-billion-effort-to-build-self-improving-ai.html\">Notable Researchers Join $4 Billion Effort to Build Self-Improving A.I.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/13\/technology\/notable-researchers-join-4-billion-effort-to-build-self-improving-ai.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/13\/technology\/notable-researchers-join-4-billion-effort-to-build-self-improving-ai.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-13 05:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.nytimes.com\">www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">Companies like Anthropic and OpenAI released new A.I. systems late last year that were particularly good at writing computer code.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">In recent months, the technology has rapidly remade the way that Silicon Valley\u2019s engineers build, test and modify new software applications. If an artificial intelligence system can write code, it can help accelerate the development of things as varied as word processors and social media apps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">Now, many of the world\u2019s leading researchers believe that A.I. will soon be powerful enough to improve itself with little or no help from human developers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">\u201cA.I. is code. And now, A.I. can code,\u201d a veteran researcher, Richard Socher, said. \u201cThe ingredients are there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">Dr. Socher recently founded, with seven other researchers, a company to pursue this mind-bending goal, which is often called \u201crecursive self-improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">His start-up, Recursive Superintelligence, has raised more than $650 million from venture capital firms including Google Ventures and Greycroft and the chip-making giants Nvidia and AMD. The six-month-old company, which has offices in San Francisco and London, has fewer than 30 employees. But it is now valued at more than $4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your patience while we verify access. 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