Ricursive Intelligence aims to cut chip design time from 2-3 years to weeks with AI

ricursive intelligence, a $4 billion startup, is building ai tools to automate and accelerate chip design. co-founders anna goldie and azalia mirhoseini previously worked on alphachip at google, which generated chip layouts in hours. ricursive's system aims to learn across different chips, potentially creating a feedback loop where ai helps design better hardware, leading to more powerful ai. this could open the door to new chip architecture and more capable and efficient ai. the company's progress will be discussed at techcrunch disrupt 2026.