Recursive Superintelligence, a London AI research startup, has raised £480 million in funding led by GV and Greycroft, with participation from AMD Ventures and NVIDIA. Founded in 2025, Recursive Superintelligence said the round values the business at around £3.5 billion.
The startup is developing AI systems that conduct experiments on how to safely improve themselves through an open-ended process of automated scientific discovery. Recursive Superintelligence stated that this approach is likely to be the fastest path to superintelligence, while adding that safety will remain a priority throughout development.
Operating from offices in London and San Francisco, Recursive Superintelligence said its team includes former research leaders from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta AI, Salesforce AI and Uber AI. The business said its team of more than 25 people has worked across areas including open-ended algorithms, AI-generating algorithms, self-improving coding agents, automated red teaming, prompt engineering, foundational world models, retrieval-augmented generation and AI scientists.
Recursive Superintelligence said human intelligence emerged through open-ended evolutionary and cultural processes that continually build on previous discoveries. The startup stated that AI research is following a similar path, with AI-driven processes increasingly replacing hand-designed methods as compute and data scale.
The fastest path to superintelligence will be realised by AI that recursively improves itself, and does so via open-ended algorithms that drive endless innovation. We will first focus on the science of AI itself (by creating AI that improves AI), but the playbook we create will soon allow us to revolutionise every scientific discipline. The potential benefits for humanity of safely creating such an advance cannot be overstated.
