Ricursive Wants AI to Design the Chips That Train AI
At AI Ascent 2026, Ricursive Intelligence co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini argued that the next bottleneck in AI is the chip-design process itself, and that AI should be used to design the hardware that trains and serves it. Drawing on their AlphaChip work, which Goldie said has shipped in four generations of Google TPUs, they described Ricursive’s plan to rebuild chip-design tools for fast AI feedback loops and turn that tooling into a platform for custom silicon. Their larger claim is that workload-specific chips, and eventually co-designed chips and models, require moving chip design from yearlong expert workflows to automated optimization.
Sequoia Capital·May 7, 2026·6 min read
