# Richard Socher

> Richard Socher is a German-born AI researcher, co-founder and CEO of You.com and Recursive, and co-founder and managing partner of AIX Ventures. His collaborative research includes GloVe, the Stanford Sentiment Treebank and the Natural Language Decathlon. After founding MetaMind and becoming Salesforce’s chief scientist following its 2016 acquisition, he co-founded You.com in 2020. His current work focuses on web search infrastructure and automated scientific discovery; his book The Eureka Machine was published in September 2026.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at You.com; co-founder and CEO at Recursive; co-founder and managing partner at AIX Ventures
- **Organizations:** You.com, Recursive, AIX Ventures, MetaMind, Salesforce, Stanford University
- **From:** Dresden, Germany
- **Nationality:** German
- **Education:** Bachelor’s degree in computational linguistics; bachelor’s thesis listed in 2006, Leipzig University, Master’s degree; master’s thesis listed in 2008, Saarland University, PhD in Computer Science, Stanford University, Honorary doctorate in engineering (Dr.-Ing. h. c.), TU Dresden
- **Known for:** 2014 Arthur L. Samuel Best Computer Science PhD Thesis Award at Stanford., Co-authored GloVe with Jeffrey Pennington and Christopher Manning., Co-authored ImageNet and the Stanford Sentiment Treebank research.

## Career timeline

- **2009** — Co-authored the ImageNet paper.
- **2013** — Lead author of the Stanford Sentiment Treebank paper on recursive deep models.
- **2014** — Completed his Stanford PhD, co-authored GloVe and founded MetaMind.
- **2016** — MetaMind was acquired by Salesforce; became chief scientist.
- **2018** — Co-authored The Natural Language Decathlon.
- **2020** — Left Salesforce and co-founded You.com with Bryan McCann.
- **2023** — Named to TIME100 AI.
- **2024** — Received an honorary doctorate from TU Dresden on April 26.
- **2025** — You.com announced $100 million in Series C funding at a $1.5 billion valuation.
- **2026** — Publicly leads Recursive alongside You.com; published The Eureka Machine; Recursive released Flint in October.

## Achievements

- 2014 Arthur L. Samuel Best Computer Science PhD Thesis Award at Stanford.
- Co-authored GloVe with Jeffrey Pennington and Christopher Manning.
- Co-authored ImageNet and the Stanford Sentiment Treebank research.
- Co-authored the 2018 Natural Language Decathlon multitask benchmark.
- Founded MetaMind, acquired by Salesforce in 2016.
- Named to TIME100 AI in 2023.
- Honorary doctorate from TU Dresden, awarded April 26, 2024.
- Helped establish the Richard Socher Student Innovation Center at his former school in Dresden-Plauen.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Recursive introduced Flint on October 21, a local coding model with 40 billion total parameters and 2.5 billion active per token; the company says its automated research system contributed across development.
- **2026-09** — PublicAffairs published The Eureka Machine on September 22.
- **2026-06** — Recursive published First Steps Toward Automated AI Research on June 11.
- **2025-09** — You.com announced a $100 million Series C led by Cox Enterprises at a $1.5 billion valuation.

## Links

- Website: https://www.socher.org/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardsocher
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/RichardSocher
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RichardSocherExplore
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/richard_explore/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rsocher

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Last updated: 2026-10-26