Recursive

Recursive (Recursive Superintelligence, Inc.) is a US AI research startup based in San Francisco, working on building safe, self-improving superintelligence. The company develops the "Eureka Machine" — a system that automates the scientific method and AI research. Recursive emerged from stealth in May 2026 with $650 million in funding; its founders are researchers previously at Google, Meta and OpenAI, and its CEO is Richard Socher. Its first public spin-off product is the open-weight coding model Flint (MoE architecture, 40B total parameters, ~2B active), released on October 21, 2026.