What Richard Socher has said about Recursive self-improvement
1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 3, 2026
Richard Socher, AI researcher, founder of You.com and co-founder and CEO of Recursive, author of The Eureka Machine, has been quoted on Recursive self-improvement once in 1 episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on October 3, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Socher says weak forms of recursive self-improvement already exist and predicts it will take off next year, given enough compute.
“But this is going to take off next year. So we're not there yet. We're not quite there yet, but we're very close”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299 (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 1:00:53
Episodes
Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Oct 3, 2026 · 2 h 27 min
Peter Diamandis and his co-hosts interview Richard Socher about Recursive's self-improving AI, ASI timelines, AI doomerism, new frontier models, and the Pentagon's Project Meridian.
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