Ricursive Intelligence Launches Frontier AI Lab
Shannon Davis
6 days ago
Ricursive Intelligence, an AI lab with the mission to transform semiconductor design, launched today and announced its $35 million seed round led by Sequoia Capital at a $750 million final valuation. Founded by Dr. Anna Goldie and Dr. Azalia Mirhoseini, who pioneered AI for chip design with their seminal AlphaChip work, Ricursive Intelligence aims to close the recursive self-improvement loop between AI and the chips that fuel it.
Ricursive Intelligence is building a next-generation platform that uses AI to accelerate and optimize every stage of the semiconductor design process, creating a recursive feedback loop: AI models design the next generation of chips and those chips, in turn, train more advanced AI models. This tight, continuous feedback accelerates both hardware and AI capabilities, creating the compute foundation that future frontier systems and artificial superintelligence will require.
“Chips are the fuel for progress in AI, and the multi-year chip design process is holding back the field,” said Dr. Anna Goldie, Founder and CEO. “At Ricursive Intelligence, we’re using AI to revolutionize chip design, developing superior hardware in a fraction of the time. By closing the loop between AI and hardware, we can accelerate progress toward artificial superintelligence and enable a Cambrian explosion of custom silicon.”
“AI’s biggest breakthroughs have emerged through scale, made possible by advances in chip design,” said Dr. Azalia Mirhoseini, Founder and CTO. “We’re using AI to accelerate AI, creating a feedback loop where our models design the next generation of AI chips, which in turn enables more capable AI models. This recursive improvement cycle will create the hardware needed to support increasingly capable AI systems, ultimately paving the way for the silicon substrate that superintelligence will require.”
Sequoia’s investment represents strong conviction in Ricursive Intelligence’s founders, technical differentiation, and market potential to accelerate the semiconductor landscape. “Ricursive Intelligence is positioned to be the leading frontier lab applying AI to transform the chip design process,” said Stephanie Zhan, Partner at Sequoia Capital. “As the industry pushes toward AI transforming the chip design process, we will not only accelerate timelines to design new chips, but even more importantly, we will also unlock new creative chip designs that will massively accelerate the field of AI in its entirety.”
Ricursive Intelligence will leverage the funding to scale its AI research, expand its compute infrastructure, and bring its platform to early enterprise. It will hyperscale partners to deliver AI-optimized chip design at unprecedented speed and efficiency. Ricursive Intelligence is uniquely positioned to break the hardware bottleneck that constrains AI progress and to forge the path toward artificial superintelligence. |
