{"id":32535,"date":"2026-08-08T13:27:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=32535"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:27:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:27:51","slug":"what-happens-when-ai-starts-building-ai-inside-recursive-self-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=32535","title":{"rendered":"What Happens When AI Starts Building AI? Inside Recursive Self-Improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">GPT-5.3 Codex, a model released in February, was the first to have a significant hand in its own development &#8220;from start to finish,&#8221; Amelia Glaese, OpenAI&#8217;s vice president of research, told TIME that month. By July, the number of experiments per researcher had doubled, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wq45rvPGNHs\" target=\"undefined\">according<\/a> to the company.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Newer entrants are chasing the same prize. Recursive Superintelligence, founded by former Google, Meta, and OpenAI researchers, also hopes to create AI systems that can rebuild themselves. The months-old startup has raised $650 million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cThe idea that the wealthiest companies in the world, employing some of the smartest people on the planet, are trying to fully automate AI R&amp;D deserves a \u2018what the f-ck\u2019 reaction,\u201d Toner told TIME in February.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Yet the chief scientists of Anthropic and OpenAI agree on one thing. 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