Valentina Agudelo Vargas

A VC roundtable and a stream of big AI financings/maersheds illustrate a fed‑to‑the‑gills AI frenzy, with mega-rounds, outsized valuations, and evolving regulatory scrutiny around compute leases and ARR reporting.

The piece interrogates RSI (recursive self-improvement) as the next AI frontier, outlining key players, tangible funding/valuation signals, and the regulatory/public-policy debate, while highlighting concrete metrics from the ecosystem and ongoing progress gaps.