TREE NEWS update: Chinese AI scientist Yao Shunyu on the evening of Nov. 2 denied reports that he was preparing to launch a recursive self-improvement (RSI) company, saying “I have not founded a company and am still an employee of Google DeepMind.” He said he did not know where the false information originated. Earlier rumors claimed the project’s co-founding team was largely formed, recruiting from Google DeepMind, Anthropic and OpenAI, at a $2 billion valuation.
Yao Shunyu denies founding RSI startup, says still at Google DeepMind
AI take
The speed with which a fully specified rumor — team composition, talent poaching across DeepMind, Anthropic and OpenAI, and a headline valuation — outran any confirmed fact is the real story here, and Yao's flat denial leaves the origin unexplained. For talent-watchers, the episode shows how RSI has become a narrative magnet capable of attaching a valuation to a company that, per Yao, does not exist. Whether the rumor was noise or an early signal of a genuinely forming venture is the open question; so is whether the labs named as recruiting grounds respond at all.
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