Key facts
- Ricursive Intelligence is developing AI to design chips, aiming to reduce the design cycle from two-three years to weeks.
- Co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 about AI's role in hardware design.
- The startup's AI system is designed to learn across different chip designs to improve future iterations.
- Before founding Ricursive, Goldie and Mirhoseini co-led Google's AlphaChip AI system, which designed chip layouts.
- Ricursive Intelligence has raised $335 million at a $4 billion valuation since its late 2025 launch.
- Nvidia is among Ricursive Intelligence's investors.
Ricursive Intelligence, a startup focused on accelerating chip design through artificial intelligence, will be featured at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini are scheduled to discuss the company's mission to shorten the chip design cycle from the current two to three years down to a matter of weeks. Their work aims to create a feedback loop where AI designs better hardware, which in turn powers more capable AI systems.
Before establishing Ricursive Intelligence in late 2025, Goldie and Mirhoseini were instrumental in developing AlphaChip at Google, an AI system that could generate chip layouts significantly faster than human designers. Their previous experience also includes co-leading Google's ML for Systems team and being early employees at Anthropic, where they held senior staff research scientist roles at Google DeepMind.
Ricursive Intelligence has already attracted significant investor interest, raising $335 million at a $4 billion valuation within four months of its launch, with Nvidia among its backers. The company's technology is intended to automate various stages of chip design, including component placement and design verification, with a focus on learning across different designs to enhance future outcomes and unlock new chip architectures for more efficient AI.