# Richard Socher (slim)

> Richard Socher is co-founder and CEO of Recursive. Recursive Flint on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder and CEO, Recursive.

Richard Socher co-founded Recursive in 2025 and is its CEO, and he is also co-founder and CEO of You.com.

## What Richard builds

- [Recursive Flint](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/recursive-flint.md), graded C, 61/100, in Open-weight models. Recursive Flint is Recursive's open-weight mixture-of-experts coding model for agents, 39.8B total and about 2.5B active parameters, with reasoning, tool calling and a 262,144-token context, published on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0. Co-founder and CEO, Recursive, researched 2026-10-27.

## Backed by

- [GV](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/gv/)
- [Greycroft](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/greycroft/)
- [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/)
- [AMD](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/amd/)

## Questions

### Who is Richard Socher?

Richard Socher co-founded Recursive in 2025 and is its CEO, and he is also co-founder and CEO of You.com.

### What does Recursive make?

Anchor Terminal lists Recursive Flint from Recursive.

### Who has invested in Recursive?

The sources our research read name GV, Greycroft, NVIDIA and AMD.

### How are Richard's tools graded?

Recursive Flint is graded C, 61 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://recursive.com/
- https://recursive.com/updates/introducing-recursive-flint
- https://recursive.com/updates/the-race-to-superintelligence-with-richard-socher
- https://huggingface.co/RecursiveSI/flint
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Socher

Not the same person as [Richard Socher](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/richard-socher-2/) (You.com), as far as the research can tell.

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.