The Race to Recursive Self-Improving AI
The a16z Show
- Published
- October 12, 2026
- Duration
- 33:27
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Oct 25, 2026
Discusses ai.
Summary
a16z General Partner Martin Casado sits down with MakerMaker.AI co-founders Dhaval Adjodah and Owen He to unpack recursive self-improvement, or RSI, and separate the increasingly popular term from what it would actually mean for an AI system to improve itself.Dhaval and Owen distinguish true RSI from simply using AI to automate pieces of AI development. T…
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a16z General Partner Martin Casado sits down with MakerMaker.AI co-founders Dhaval Adjodah and Owen He to unpack recursive self-improvement, or RSI, and separate the increasingly popular term from what it would actually mean for an AI system to improve itself.Dhaval and Owen distinguish true RSI from simply using AI to automate pieces of AI development. Their goal is a closed loop where the system being improved is also doing the improving, across components including models, harnesses, and even
Themes
- ai