Tian Yuandong Announces Startup Venture After Leaving Meta
After leaving Meta, Tian Yuan Dong has announced his new venture. The startup Recursive_SI has officially launched with a list of founders including Tian Yuan Dong. The founding team also comprises Richard Socher (CEO), Tim Rocktäschel, Jeff Clune, Tim Shi, Caiming Xiong, and Alexey Dosovitskiy, among others. These members have experience building AI research labs at companies like Salesforce and Uber, and have held leadership roles at OpenAI, DeepMind, Google Brain, and Meta.
Recursive_SI aims to develop artificial intelligence capable of conducting experiments autonomously and safely improving itself through an open-ended, automated scientific discovery process. This is seen as a promising path toward superintelligence. The company has raised $650 million at a valuation of $4.65 billion, led by GV (Google Ventures) and Greycroft, with significant investments from AMD Ventures and NVIDIA.
The team has grown to over 25 members, including new additions like Zhuge Mingchen. Zhuge, a Founding Member, holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from KAUST under Professor Jürgen Schmidhuber. His research focuses on Coding Agents, Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI), and next-generation machine paradigms, with contributions including early RSI systems like GPTSwarm and work on agentic AI frameworks.
The founders shared their vision on X: building AI that can automatically discover knowledge and recursively self-improve, fundamentally changing the way science and technology advance. The team is recognized as a leader in core areas of recursive self-improving AI, with past breakthroughs in open-ended algorithms, AI-generated algorithms, automated testing, world models, Vision Transformers, RAG, and AI scientists. There is high anticipation for Recursive_SI's future research.
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