About Ricursive Intelligence
Uses AI to design semiconductor chips (built on AlphaChip). Recursive loop: AI designs better chips → chips train stronger AI. Targets compressing chip design from years to weeks. Founded by Dr. Anna Goldie and Dr. Azalia Mirhoseini (AlphaChip co-creators, ex-Google Brain). $335M raised ($300M Series A at $4B val, Feb 2026, Lightspeed + NVIDIA NVentures).
Ricursive Intelligence was founded in 2025 and is based in Palo Alto, CA, United States. It is listed under Custom Silicon, AI Accelerators. Reported funding is $35M seed (Dec 2025, Sequoia); $300M Series A at $4B valuation (early 2026); $335M total.
Compute Technologies
- Custom Silicon
- AI Accelerators
What Ricursive Intelligence works on
Custom Silicon
Custom silicon means a company designs its own chips for its own products or data centers instead of buying standard parts. The chip is made by a foundry such as TSMC, but the design belongs to the customer.
AI Accelerators
An AI accelerator is a chip, or a part of a chip, designed to run machine learning faster or with less energy than a general-purpose processor. The category includes GPUs, TPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) and chips from many startups.
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