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Ann Wu Is Teaching Chip Design to Move at Software Speed
After nearly five years designing Apple silicon, Ann Wu chose an unfashionably difficult startup problem: helping chip engineers find bugs, test tradeoffs, and reach tape-out before the workload changes beneath them.
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.