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Beyond Bigger Models: Recursion As The Next Scaling Law In AI

Beyond Bigger Models: Recursion As The Next Scaling Law In AI

Y Combinator Startup Podcast
May 1, 2026 38 min
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<p>A 7-million parameter model outperforming models a thousand times its size on tasks like ARC Prize. That&#39;s what recursive reasoning unlocks.In this episode of Decoded, YC&#39;s Ankit Gupta and Francois Chaubard break down two recent papers on recursive AI models, HRMs and TRMs, that are achieving state-of-the-art results with a fraction of the parameters of today&#39;s largest models.They explain why standard LLMs hit a fundamental ceiling on certain reasoning tasks, how recursion at inference time gives small models the compute depth to break through it, and what happens when you combine these ideas with the power of large-scale foundation models.</p>

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