Recursive, an AI startup founded last year, is starting to live up to its name. The company, which is trying to build AI that can improve itself, released its first model, Flint, on Wednesday. Flint ...

For the past few days I’ve been testing an impressive open-weight AI coding model called Flint. It suggests that fully recursive self-improvement, or RSI—an exciting and controversial approach that ...

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“Recursive self-improvement” is the idea that artificial intelligence could learn to build and train itself, creating exponential new progress — and risk. Jeff Clune, a computer scientist and ...

How do you get from a chatbot that sometimes makes things up to a machine that humans might struggle to control? There are several steps in that argument, and plenty of uncertainty. But an idea known ...

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The up-to-$12 billion artificial intelligence (AI) drug discovery collaboration of Recursion, Roche, and its Genentech subsidiary marked a milestone Wednesday when plans were announced for Recursion ...

Roche Holding AG advanced the first project from its AI drug-discovery partnership with Recursion Pharmaceuticals, marking an early test of whether artificial intelligence can uncover new medicines.

On Tuesday, the AI company Recursive Superintelligence announced a $410 million compute deal with Amazon Web Services. The company, which emerged from stealth in May with $650 million in funding, is ...

The US AI research company Anthropic has become known for building powerful AI models while simultaneously warning about their dangers. “We are not there yet, and recursive self-improvement is not ...

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