Recursive SI trained a model from scratch in 4 months using auto research
altryne · x · 2026-10-27
Tim Shi of Recursive SI says the team released a model from scratch in just 4 months, and had no pre-training or post-training effort until a month before release. They run automated research at nearly every stage — pre-training, RL, and inference — using AI to drive the training pipeline itself.
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