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February 16, 2026
How Ricursive Intelligence Raised $335M at a $4B Valuation in 4 Months
The reason why this nascent startup had VCs lining up is the founders. They are so famed in the AI world, everyone tried to hire them.
TL;DR
- Ricursive Intelligence, co-founded by Anna Goldie (CEO) and Azalia Mirhoseini (CTO), raised $300 million in a Series A round at a $4 billion valuation.
- The founders previously worked together at Google Brain, where they created the Alpha Chip, an AI tool that significantly accelerated chip layout design.
- Ricursive builds AI tools that design chips, targeting chip makers like Nvidia, AMD, and Intel as customers, differentiating itself from companies that build AI chips.
- The company's platform uses AI to automate chip design, aiming to reduce the process from over a year to hours, and plans to learn across different chip designs.
- The founders believe faster and more efficient chip design is crucial for advancing AI development and achieving goals like artificial general intelligence (AGI).
- The technology could lead to significant improvements in hardware efficiency, potentially reducing the resource consumption of AI advancements.
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