# Recursive **Entity class:** Company **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / Recursive self-improvement **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Recursive is the AI company discussed in the broadcast as Richard Socher's effort to develop systems capable of improving components of their own research and development process. ## Mechanism and significance The company is positioned in the source as an applied test of open-ended search and recursive architectural improvement rather than as proof that unconstrained ASI already exists. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Scientific Intelligence and Recursive Improvement|Scientific Intelligence and Recursive Improvement]] - **Primary fields:** [[AI for Science]] · [[Scientific Acceleration]] · [[Machine Intelligence]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Richard Socher]] · [[The Eureka Machine]] · [[Recursive Self-Improvement]] · [[Weak RSI]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.