# Ricursive Intelligence

> Ricursive Intelligence is a Palo Alto frontier AI lab using artificial intelligence to compress the slow, expensive process of semiconductor design. Founded in late 2025 by Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini, the co-creators of Google's AlphaChip, the company is building an end-to-end AI model that designs, verifies and closes silicon, aiming to create a recursive loop where AI designs better chips and those chips train better AI. It raised $335M across seed and Series A rounds, reaching a $4B valuation roughly two months after launch.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founders:** Anna Goldie (Co-Founder & CEO), Azalia Mirhoseini (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~19 employees (early 2026), recruiting researchers and engineers from Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Nvidia, Apple and Cadence
- **Products:** End-to-end AI chip design platform, 'Designless' silicon model, AlphaChip lineage
- **Notable:** Founders co-created AlphaChip at Google, used across four generations of TPUs and adopted by external chipmakers like MediaTek., Raised $335M total ($35M seed + $300M Series A) within roughly four months of founding., Reached a $4B valuation about two months after public launch.

## Products & services

- **End-to-end AI chip design platform** — A full-stack AI system that designs, verifies and closes silicon, compressing chip design cycles that traditionally take years into a fraction of the time.
- **'Designless' silicon model** — An evolution beyond the 'fabless' model: clients choose the tradeoffs that matter to them and Ricursive delivers a fully optimized, ready-to-build chip design, democratizing custom silicon access.
- **AlphaChip lineage** — Builds on the founders' reinforcement-learning approach to chip floor-planning that frames physical design as an RL problem, producing layouts in hours that match or beat human designers.

## Achievements

- Founders co-created AlphaChip at Google, used across four generations of TPUs and adopted by external chipmakers like MediaTek.
- Raised $335M total ($35M seed + $300M Series A) within roughly four months of founding.
- Reached a $4B valuation about two months after public launch.
- Attracted Nvidia, Sequoia, Lightspeed and DST Global as investors.
- Recruited talent from Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Nvidia, Apple and Cadence.

## Latest updates

- **2025-12** — Launched as a frontier AI lab with a $35M seed round led by Sequoia at a $750M valuation.
- **2026-01** — Raised a $300M Series A led by Lightspeed at a $4B valuation, bringing total funding to $335M.
- **2026-02** — Featured in TechCrunch coverage of how it raised $335M at a $4B valuation in four months.

## Links

- Website: https://ricursive.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/ricursive-intelligence
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/RicursiveAI
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55LT52eVArM

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Last updated: 2026-06-13