AI & ML · Sep 15
Latent Space frames Richard Socher’s Recursive as the $5B AI for AI research bet
The interview pushes a thesis that the next AI tooling wave will automate model research itself, not just wrap chatbots in nicer buttons.
- Track AI research automation as a new tooling layer, not just another chatbot wrapper.
- Treat Recursive’s early results as signals, not proof of a finished general AI scientist.
- Build skills around evals, verifiers, experiment loops, and agent orchestration.