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Ex-Meta Chinese star joins race for self-improving AI with US$4.6b start-up

South China Morning Post · · 193 words · By Vincent Chow
AI Superintelligence Race Venture Capital and Valuation US-China Tech Competition
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4 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“The funding round was led by venture capital firms GV and Greycroft, with ‘major participation’ from Nvidia and AMD”
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The provided web search results for this claim are irrelevant. They discuss 'Google Voice' and a general description of 'GV (Google Ventures)', but none of the sources mention a funding round for Recursive Superintelligence or participation by Greycroft, Nvidia, and AMD.
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web search NEUTRAL — Other apps created for use with Google Voice, such as GVdialer, GV Mobile and VoiceCentral, were removed from the App Store. Apple states that the reason for the rejection and removals is that these a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Voice
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web search NEUTRAL — AI MODE (Google Ventures) EST. 2009 Latest from GV A DECADE AHEAD Portfolio Companies at AI's Frontier AI Applications
https://www.gv.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Learn how Google Voice provides flexible online phone numbers and systems that help businesses of any size stay connected and save time.
https://voice.google.com/
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“A star Chinese researcher laid off by Facebook owner Meta Platforms has co-founded a start-up focused on self-improving artificial intelligence systems”
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Two independent sources confirm this: one explicitly mentions a star Chinese researcher laid off by Meta co-founding a start-up for self-improving AI, and another confirms Recursive Superintelligence was founded by former Google, Meta, and OpenAI researchers to automate AI creation.
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web search NEUTRAL — "China-founded AI start-up Manus acquired by Meta for 'billions'"."Meta to buy Chinese founded startup Manus to boost advanced AI". Reuters. ^ "Meta buys startup Manus in latest move to advance its ar…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manus_(AI_agent)
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web search NEUTRAL — A star Chinese researcher laid off by Facebook owner Meta Platforms has co-founded a start-up focused on self-improving artificial intelligence systems, joining a wave of US and Chinese firms developi…
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3353576/ex-meta-c…
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web search NEUTRAL — Recursive Superintelligence, founded by former Google, Meta and OpenAI researchers, is part of a growing effort to automate the creation of artificial intelligence. Listen · 4:19 min.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/technology/recursive-supe…
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“Tian Yuandong, former research scientist director at Meta’s FAIR (Fundamental AI Research) team, launched Recursive Superintelligence alongside seven other co-founders.”
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The claim is confirmed by multiple sources: one explicitly states Tian Yuandong (former research scientist director at Meta's FAIR) launched Recursive Superintelligence with seven other co-founders, and his personal webpage confirms his role as an ex-Research Scientist Director in Meta FAIR.
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web search NEUTRAL — Recursive Superintelligence, founded by former Google, Meta and OpenAI researchers, is part of a growing effort to automate the creation of artificial intelligence. Listen · 4:42 min.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/technology/notable-resear…
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web search NEUTRAL — Tian Yuandong, former research scientist director at Meta’s FAIR (Fundamental AI Research) team, launched Recursive Superintelligence alongside seven other co-founders.Tian Yuandong pictured during hi…
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3353576/ex-meta-c…
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web search NEUTRAL — Yuandong Tian is an ex-Research Scientist Director in Meta FAIR. His research direction covers multiple aspects of decision making, including reinforcement learning, planning and efficiency, as well a…
https://yuandong-tian.com/
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“The company said on Wednesday it had raised more than US$650 million at a US$4.65 billion valuation.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of dictionary definitions and Wikipedia entries for the word 'recursive' and 'recursion'. There is no financial data or news reporting provided in the evidence to verify the funding amount or valuation of the company.
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web search NEUTRAL — A recursive step — a set of rules that reduces all successive cases toward the base case. For example, the following is a recursive definition of a person's ancestor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 6, 2026 · The meaning of RECURSIVE is of, relating to, or involving recursion. How to use recursive in a sentence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recursive
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web search NEUTRAL — Recursive means defining each term in a sequence by referring back to one or more previous terms. Instead of a direct formula for the n n nth term, a recursive rule tells you how to get the next term …
https://www.mathwords.com/r/recursive.htm
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