TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Ricursive Intelligence’s Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini on when AI starts designing its own hardware — SkimNews
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- Ricursive Intelligence co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (October 13–15, Moscone West, San Francisco) about AI systems that design, learn from, and improve their own chip designs.
- Ricursive raised $335 million at a $4 billion valuation within four months of its late-2025 launch, including a $300 million Series A round, with Nvidia listed among its investors.
- Before founding Ricursive, Goldie and Mirhoseini co-led AlphaChip at Google, an AI system that generated chip layouts in hours and helped design multiple generations of Google's Tensor Processing Units.
- Both founders were early employees at Anthropic and senior staff research scientists at Google DeepMind; Goldie holds a Stanford CS PhD and Mirhoseini is an assistant professor there who founded the Scaling Intelligence Lab.
- Ricursive aims to shrink chip-design cycles that today take two to three years down to a matter of weeks by building AI tools that learn across different chip designs.
- Goldie is Ricursive's founder and CEO; Mirhoseini is founder and CTO, and the two also co-founded Google's ML for Systems team.
Why it matters: Nvidia — the dominant seller of chips that train AI — is now backing a startup whose founders came from Anthropic and Google DeepMind, the labs that consume those chips. With traditional chip design still taking two to three years and Ricursive targeting a weeks-long cycle, the $4 billion valuation in just four months quantifies how seriously the AI-chip ecosystem treats automated design as its next compression point.
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