GoKawiilRicursive Intelligence to detail AI-driven chip design at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Ricursive Intelligence co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 about their startup's AI system for designing computer chips. The company aims to cut chip design time from two to three years down to weeks, building on the pair's earlier work co-leading Google's AlphaChip project, which helped design several generations of Google's Tensor Processing Units.
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Faster chip design cycles could remove a major bottleneck in scaling AI hardware, potentially accelerating how quickly more powerful AI systems reach the market. The founders' framing of a self-improving loop—AI designing hardware that then powers better AI—suggests a compounding effect on progress, though this remains an aspiration rather than a demonstrated outcome outside prior TPU work.
- Ricursive Intelligence wants to shrink chip design from years to weeks using AI.
- Founders previously led Google's AlphaChip, used in designing Tensor Processing Units.
- The pair will present their approach at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
Source: techcrunch.com — Techcrunch Events, 2026-09-25
Published there as: “TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Ricursive Intelligence’s Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini on when AI starts designing its own hardware”
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