MIT Researcher Proposes Recursive Language Models as Long-Context Alternative

MIT PhD student Alex Zhang introduced Recursive Language Models (RLM) on the Weaviate podcast, where tasks are decomposed into recursive sub-queries instead of piling observations into long context. He noted Claude Code already shows RLM-like traits with dynamic fan-out.

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