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Yuandong Tian launched Recursive on May 13, 2026, pitching an open-ended platform…

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Yuandong Tian launched Recursive on May 13, 2026, pitching an open-ended platform for AI that automatically discovers knowledge and improves itself recursively. The 25-person team in San Francisco and London covers agentic AI, architectures, world models, optimization, and interpretability. An outside researcher praised Tian’s theory-to-systems track record and flagged huge, novel inference demands for continuously learning systems, offering potential collaboration.

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congrats on the launch @tydsh! yuandong is someone i have looked up to since my early research days - a rare researcher who moves fluidly between deep theory and impactful systems. building a company around recursive self-improvement at this moment feels exactly right. the inference demands of systems that continuously learn and improve themselves will be massive and fundamentally different from static model serving. excited to see Recursive push this frontier and hope to collaborate as these challenges grow @Recursive_SI

Yuandong Tian (@tydsh)

Today we launch Recursive.

We are building AI that discovers knowledge automatically and improves itself recursively, an open-ended process that will fundamentally change how science and technology advance.

Our 25 top researchers and engineers in San Francisco and London bring diverse expertise spanning agentic AI scientists, architecture and algorithm design, world models, optimization, and interpretability, united by a shared conviction that this is the most important problem we could be working on today.

If you are interested in joining, please send your resume to talent@recursive.com. Follow us at @Recursive_SI!

— https://nitter.net/tydsh/status/2054569220718149775#m