Bloomberg: The Billion-Dollar Quest to Build AI That Improves Itself — Companies Bet on Recursive Self-Improvement

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Bloomberg reports a growing number of AI companies are investing heavily in recursive self-improvement — the unproven approach of building AI systems that can enhance their own capabilities. The May 28 feature by Shirin Ghaffary and Mark Bergen examines the technical and commercial bets being placed on this approach, which remains one of the most ambitious and contested frontiers in AI research. For builders, this signals a potential paradigm shift from human-directed model improvement to autonomous capability expansion.