Jeff Clune is a computer science professor and AI researcher who co-founded Recursive Superintelligence, a company developing recursively self-improving AI systems aimed at automating knowledge discovery. Jeff Clune's Twitter Score is 42 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #21,962 (top 5%) among 486,621 tracked accounts.
Jeff Clune co-founded Recursive Superintelligence, which raised a $650M funding round co-led by GV at a $4.65 billion valuation, per public reporting. His research spans deep learning, deep reinforcement learning, AI safety, interpretability, evolutionary algorithms, and AI-generating algorithms, a framework he has helped develop for building AI systems that themselves improve AI. Jeff Clune is a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia, currently on leave through the end of 2026, and holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and faculty membership at the Vector Institute. He also serves as a scientific advisor to LawZero.
Jeff Clune previously led a research team at OpenAI and was formerly a senior research advisor to DeepMind. He was a senior research manager and founding member of Uber AI Labs, which was built from Geometric Intelligence after that company's acquisition by Uber. Earlier in his career, he worked as a visiting scientist at Cornell University and was a professor of computer science at the University of Wyoming. Jeff Clune's account has published 4,280 posts and has been mentioned by 26 accounts a total of 37 times.
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