According to a report by the UK’s Financial Times, Recursive Superintelligence, a new UK AI startup that was founded only about four months ago, has completed at least $500 million in funding, with a pre-money valuation of $4 billion. This round was led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), with participation from Nvidia.
Funding round details
According to the Financial Times, the main terms of this funding round are as follows: pre-money valuation of $4 billion; target funding of at least $500 million; led by GV, with Nvidia participating; due to oversubscription, the final amount of funding could reach $1 billion. Recursive Superintelligence completed its company registration in London, UK, around the end of 2025, and has not yet made an official public debut to date.
Founder team background
According to the Financial Times and public information, the main members of the founding team of Recursive Superintelligence are as follows:
Richard Socher: Former Chief Scientist at Salesforce
Tim Rocktäschel: AI professor at University College London (UCL) and former Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind; previously involved in research on the Genie interactive world model
Josh Tobin, Jeff Clune, Tim Shi: All from OpenAI
Other members: From Google and Meta
R&D goals and industry background
According to the Financial Times, Recursive Superintelligence’s goal is to build AI systems that can continuously improve themselves without human intervention—meaning the model can autonomously generate training data and update its own parameters, removing human engineers from the training cycle. The Financial Times also notes that these concepts are still in the research stage and have not yet been validated through long-term testing.
According to Crunchbase data, in the first quarter of 2026 the global startup funding total reached an all-time high of $300 billion, with OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo accounting for the bulk of it. Recursive Superintelligence is one of the AI new labs spun out from—or created by—major technology companies in the recent period. Similar organizations include Thinking Machines Lab, Safe Superintelligence, Ineffable Intelligence, and Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs.
Frequently asked questions
What is the funding size of Recursive Superintelligence, and who are its key investors?
According to the Financial Times, Recursive Superintelligence has completed at least $500 million in funding, with a pre-money valuation of $4 billion. The round is led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), with Nvidia participating; due to oversubscription, the final funding size could reach $1 billion.
What are the main backgrounds of Recursive Superintelligence’s founding team?
According to public information, members of the founding team include Richard Socher, former Chief Scientist at Salesforce; Tim Rocktäschel, an AI professor at UCL and former Chief Scientist at DeepMind; and Josh Tobin, Jeff Clune, and Tim Shi from OpenAI. The other members are from Google and Meta.
What was the global startup funding total in the first quarter of 2026?
According to Crunchbase data, in the first quarter of 2026 the global startup funding total reached $300 billion, an all-time high, with OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo accounting for the bulk of it.
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