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Back to EpisodesA Chinese AI Lab Just Called Its New Model "Recursive Self-Improvement." That's a Big Deal.
Published 4 months ago
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MiniMax released M2.7 with a product note that uses the exact phrase AI safety researchers have been warning about for years — "beginning the journey of recursive self-improvement." It's open-weight, at a sixth the cost of Claude Opus 4.8, and ahead of it on coding benchmarks. We unpack what the language means, cover the IMF's sharpest warning yet on AI and entry-level jobs, and close with what SPCX's first week tells us about the Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs.