What happens when AI starts building itself? | TechCrunch
Richard Socher's new $650 million startup wants to build an AI that can research and improve itself indefinitely — and he insists it will actually ship products.
What happens when AI starts building itself? | TechCrunch Image Credits: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile / Getty Images AI What happens when AI starts building itself? Russell Brandom 12:57 PM PDT · May 14, 2026 Richard Socher has been a major figure in AI for some time, best known for founding the early chatbot startup You.com and, before that, his work on ImageNet. Now he’s joining the current generation of research-focused AI startups with Recursive Superintelligence, a San Francisco-based startup that came out of stealth on Wednesday with $650 million in funding. Socher is joined in the
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