rekursiv.ai
New accelerator entry · 2026-07-19 · the record
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We're scaling self-improving AI scientist teams to ideate/experiment/discover, generating new knowledge autonomously. Their discoveries reduced ARC-1/2 costs by 10,000× while maintaining state-of-the-art accuracy and yielded material advances on combinatorial ML problems. We believe that AI is bounded not by compute, but ideas. Scaling to millions of sessions of discovery enables leveraging its own discoveries and presents a novel training source capable of ushering a new era of self-reliant foundational models.
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Most-starred repository: sagent — 32 stars, Python.
Counted 2026-09-05 across repositories the account owns; forks are excluded.
Ex-Google, Ex-Deepmind, Ex-LumaAI staff research scientist for a combined total of 14 years. Led foundational model pre-training at Luma AI. Creator of TensorFlow Probability (1M+ downloads / month), built Veo's first prototype, contributor to Gemini and VideoPoet (ICML 2024 Best Paper). 11,600+ citations. Now co-founder of rekursiv.ai, automating the science of ML research.
Ex-Google, Ex-LumaAI scientist for a combined total of 7 years. First author of VideoPoet (ICML 2024 Best Paper), led the World Models team at Luma, and built large-scale multimodal LLMs and diffusion models for image, video, audio, and text. Now co-founder of rekursiv.ai, automating the science of ML research.
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