This Startup Is All In on Recursive Self-Improvement. Its Latest Model Is Scary Good
THE SO WHAT
A startup betting fully on recursive self-improvement—using AI to build AI—pushes the frontier on capability and on opaque supply chains of training data, prompts, and evals. If you buy from vendors on this path, you’ll need deeper visibility into how models are generated and governed, not just their headline benchmarks.
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