Richard Socher

New Capabilities

As of September 2026: Closed $650M round at a $4.65B valuation; targeting a 'Level 1' autonomous training run as first milestone

In May 2025, DeepMind's AlphaEvolve became the first commercial AI to optimize its own training, shaving 23% off a critical computation kernel. A year later it was a product: Google runs it across data centers, chips, and Spanner, and six outside companies had published results.

Updated Sep 27