Francois Chaubard
Founder and CEO of Alpha School and a YC visiting partner with deep interest in AI systems and machine learning research. Known for explaining technical concepts in areas like reasoning, model architectures, and recursive computation.
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May 1, 2026 • 38min
Beyond Bigger Models: Recursion As The Next Scaling Law In AI
Francois Chaubard, Alpha School founder and YC visiting partner focused on AI systems, explores why tiny recursive models can beat giants on hard reasoning tasks. He digs into HRM and TRM, transformer limits, chain of thought as a workaround, hidden-state memory, truncated backprop, and why recursion could become AI’s next scaling law.
