How Ricursive Intelligence Raised $335M at a $4B Valuation in 4 Fucking Months

So some bunch of fuckers called Ricursive Intelligence have just conned $335 million out of SoftBank and their merry band of VC lemmings at a $4 billion valuation. Four. Fucking. Months. That’s less time than it takes for my last password reset request to crawl through the ticketing system, and these shitgibbons are already unicorn status. Christ on a bike.

Their revolutionary breakthrough? A “recursive self-improving AI architecture” that can “optimise its own cognitive pathways.” What a load of absolute wank. I’ve been hearing the same AI snake oil since the last bubble when some dipshit with a laptop and a TensorFlow tutorial convinced investors he was building Skynet. Spoiler alert: he was building a chatbot that could barely order pizza, let alone recursively improve fuck-all.

The article name-drops Masayoshi Son like he’s the messiah of moron money, throwing cash at any startup with “AI” in the name and a PowerPoint deck that mentions “paradigm shift” more than three times. The usual suspects are all there – Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, probably some crypto bros who pivoted to AI when their NFT marketplace turned to shit. They’ll all pat themselves on the back until the due diligence catches up and they realise the “proprietary algorithm” is just a bloke named Dave hitting the “retrain” button every morning.

Meanwhile, your actual infrastructure is held together by a shell script I wrote in 2003 and a server that runs hotter than a fat man’s thighs in August, but hey, let’s throw another third of a billion dollars at some recursive nonsense because the PowerPoint had pretty graphs. The whole thing’s about as stable as a Jenga tower in an earthquake, but sure, let’s value it higher than the GDP of a small island nation.

How Ricursive Intelligence raised $335M at a $4B valuation in 4 months

Back in ’21, some startup flogged “revolutionary blockchain-based DNS” and raised $80 million. Turned out it was just BIND running on a Raspberry Pi with a Bitcoin miner strapped to it. The founders fled to the Caymans, the VCs cried into their kombucha, and I spent six months cleaning up the DNSSEC mess they left behind. This Ricursive shower smells exactly the same – like bullshit and desperation with a hint of Palo Alto office space.

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