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The Race to Recursive Self-Improving AI

aired Oct 12, 2026 · 33.0m
Signal
84.9/ 100
High signal
confidence 0.99
Orig56.4
Actn100.0
Dens100.0
Dpth100.0
Clty63.1
Summary

The fundamental idea here is to build AI that improves itself, and I think we're getting there. You can think of RSI at many different levels of the stack.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, think, it's, including: For the first time, we could swap the optimizer as the optimizee, and this leads to a reinvestment of cognitive improvement into itself.

Key takeaways
  1. 01The fundamental idea here is to build AI that improves itself, and I think we're getting there
  2. 02Prompts, harness, weights, and you can go all the way to basically chips
  3. 03Our approach to RSI is that we have a multi-agent system working together that's been recursively improved
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