Recursive is a frontier AI research company co-founded to develop recursively self-improving systems that automate knowledge discovery. Recursive's Twitter Score is 15 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #63,439 among 486,621 tracked accounts.
Recursive was co-founded by Richard Socher, who serves as CEO, alongside Tim Rocktäschel, Jeff Clune, Tim Shi, Josh Tobin, Caiming Xiong, Yuandong Tian, and Alexey Dosovitskiy. The company emerged from stealth in May 2026 with $650 million in funding at a $4.65 billion post-money valuation, with GV and Greycroft leading the round and NVIDIA and AMD participating.
Recursive describes its near-term focus as building AI that improves AI through open-ended algorithms, with a longer-term ambition to extend that approach across scientific disciplines. The company has stated that safety is a priority, framing its mission around maximizing benefits while reducing risks from recursively self-improving systems. A research post titled "First Steps Toward Automated AI Research" was published on the company's official site in June 2026, signaling active public research output.
Recursive has published 4 posts on the platform. The account has been mentioned by 36 accounts, with 54 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Recursive include 75 founders, 20 angel investors, 22 influencers and 6 VCs. Among them are Dan Robinson, Murad, Sriram Krishnan, Yu Hu, Andrew Steinwold and Siqi Chen.