GV and Nvidia bet $650M on self-improving AI — the model runs on your laptop

Recursive has raised $650 million at a $4.65 billion valuation from Google Ventures, Greycroft, Nvidia and AMD Ventures to build what it calls recursive self-improving AI.

Flint is pitched at local, unmetered coding: open weights mean companies can run it on their own machines instead of sending proprietary code to an outside provider. The catch is hardware — a 48GB machine sits at the premium end of the consumer market.

The company is explicit about the endgame: automating stages of model development, from architecture to training methods, with human overseers who can stop the loop.