Observed Signal · Oct 29, 2026 · Market Signal · Source: Forerunner · Impact: 4/5
Investing in SuperMe: The Next Great Knowledge Network
We're investing in the possibility that AI fundamentally changes how human expertise is accessed and valued. We're pleased to lead SuperMe's Series A and partner with Casey, Ludo, and the team in pursuing that opportunity.
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SuperMe Raises $20M for AI Expert Profiles
SuperMe, a startup offering a network of AI profiles built from real-life experts' knowledge, announced a $20 million funding round led by Forerunner, with participation from Greylock Partners. The platform lets users ask questions via a chatbot, which then creates a group chat with AI profiles of experts best suited to answer. Founded in 2024 by Casey Winters and Ludo Antonov, SuperMe gathers knowledge from public sources and connected apps, ensuring private data is excluded from answers. The service is currently free but will introduce usage caps and paid tiers. It integrates with MCP to allow questions from chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT. The company plans to hire more staff and expand its expert network.
Socher & Rocktäschel's $650M AI bet
German AI researchers Richard Socher and Tim Rocktäschel have launched a new start-up, Recursive Superintelligence (RSI), and raised $650 million at a $4.65 billion valuation. RSI — founded by Socher, Rocktäschel and six co‑founders — aims to build an AI that largely performs AI research itself and to scale toward so‑called “superintelligence” within about two years. The newsletter also reports several other technology and funding items: AppliedAI founder Arya Bolurfrushan was sentenced to two years in prison for insider trading and ordered to repay nearly $1 million; Munich fusion start‑up Proxima Fusion raised €411 million valuing it at €2.4 billion; QuantumDiamonds raised €91 million led by World Fund; and Microsoft’s Xbox division announced around 3,200 job cuts. The piece is a July 10, 2026 tech newsletter roundup covering funding, executive news, and industry developments.
Recursive Superintelligence Raises $650M for Self-Improving AI
Recursive Superintelligence, a San Francisco-based AI startup, came out of stealth on May 14, 2026 with $650 million in funding. The company’s team includes Richard Socher (founder of You.com), prominent AI researchers such as Peter Norvig, Cresta co-founder Tim Shi, Tim Rocktäschel, and Josh Tobin. Recursive’s stated mission is to build a recursively self-improving AI that can autonomously identify its own weaknesses and redesign itself, using principles of open-endedness and co-evolutionary techniques (e.g., “rainbow teaming”). The founders say the effort focuses on automating ideation, implementation and validation of research, and that product timelines may accelerate to quarters rather than years. The founders also highlighted compute and resource allocation as central considerations for future progress and governance.
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