# Anna Goldie

> Anna Goldie is the co-founder and CEO of Ricursive Intelligence, a frontier AI lab building the AI stack that designs, verifies, and closes silicon. With Azalia Mirhoseini she co-created AlphaChip, the reinforcement-learning system that laid out multiple generations of Google's TPUs in hours instead of months. A Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and an early contributor to work at Anthropic, she holds dual bachelor's degrees in computer science and linguistics plus a master's from MIT and a PhD from Stanford. Launched in 2025, Ricursive raised $335M across seed and Series A within four months, reaching a $4B valuation backed by Sequoia, Lightspeed, and Nvidia.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Ricursive Intelligence
- **Organizations:** Ricursive Intelligence, Google DeepMind, Google Brain, Anthropic, Stanford University, TripAdvisor
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), M.Eng. in EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), PhD in Computer Science (Stanford NLP Group), Stanford University
- **Known for:** Co-created AlphaChip, the reinforcement-learning system used to design multiple generations of Google's TPUs, Co-first author on the AlphaChip research published in Nature, Co-founded and led the ML for Systems team at Google Brain

## Career timeline

- **2011** — Completed master's thesis work on dialogue systems at MIT
- **2016** — Co-founded and led the ML for Systems team at Google Brain with Azalia Mirhoseini
- **2020** — Co-authored the AlphaChip work applying deep reinforcement learning to chip floorplanning
- **2021** — Named to MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35
- **2023** — Continued AI-for-chip-design research as Google Brain merged into Google DeepMind
- **2025** — Left Google in September with Azalia Mirhoseini and AlphaChip colleagues to found Ricursive Intelligence
- **2025** — Raised a $35M seed round led by Sequoia Capital at a $750M valuation
- **2026** — Raised a $300M Series A led by Lightspeed at a $4B valuation, with Nvidia among investors

## Achievements

- Co-created AlphaChip, the reinforcement-learning system used to design multiple generations of Google's TPUs
- Co-first author on the AlphaChip research published in Nature
- Co-founded and led the ML for Systems team at Google Brain
- Named to MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35 (2021)
- Raised $335M for Ricursive Intelligence within four months of launch, reaching a $4B valuation
- Contributed to large language model work including efforts associated with Gemini and Claude

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Ricursive Intelligence announced a $300M Series A at a $4B valuation led by Lightspeed, completing $335M raised within four months of launch.
- **2026-01** — Most recent funding milestone recorded for Ricursive Intelligence.
- **2025-09** — Goldie and co-founders departed Google to launch Ricursive Intelligence as a frontier AI lab for chip design.

## Links

- Website: https://www.annagoldie.com/
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/adgoldie
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/annadgoldie
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K05Dh-QjM8c

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Last updated: 2026-06-14