Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299

The mates sit down with Richard Socher to discuss Recursive’s $670M bet on self-improving AI, why he puts P(Doom) at zero, the race toward ASI, proposed restrictions on recursive self-improvement, and what new AI benchmarks like Tavus’ Turing Test could tell us about what comes next.

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Peter H. Diamandis, MD, is the Founder of XPRIZE, Singularity University, ZeroG, and A360

Salim Ismail is the founder of Open ExO, a GP at Exponential Venture Capital/The Organizational Singularity Fund and a sought after global speaker and thought leader.

Dave Blundin is the founder & GP of Link Ventures

Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross is a computer scientist and founder of Reified

Richard Socher is a leading AI researcher and entrepreneur, founder and CEO of You.com and co-founder and CEO of Recursive, who previously served as Chief Scientist at Salesforce after founding MetaMind. you.com

Read Richard Socher’s new book, The Eureka Machine: Why AI Is the Key to Unlocking a New Era of Scientific Discoveries: https://www.eurekamachine.org/

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