Ricursive Intelligence founders to speak on AI chip design at Disrupt 2026

In short: Ricursive Intelligence says it is building AI to help design computer chips faster, and its founders will discuss the idea at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.

What happened

Ricursive Intelligence co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini are scheduled to speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco, which runs October 13 to 15. Their session is titled “When AI Starts Designing Its Own Hardware.”

The company’s focus is using AI to help design computer chips, which are the physical parts inside computers that do the calculating. Designing a new chip is slow and complex, and the article says it often takes two to three years.

Ricursive Intelligence says it wants to cut that cycle down to weeks. The idea is to use AI to automate parts of chip design and to learn from each design, like a chef who gets better after every recipe (each new chip design teaches the system what to try next).

Goldie and Mirhoseini previously worked on AlphaChip at Google, an AI system that helped create chip layouts faster than human designers. The TechCrunch article also says Ricursive launched in late 2025 and raised $335 million within four months at a $4 billion valuation, and Nvidia is among its investors.

Why it matters

Most AI tools depend on chips that can handle huge amounts of work. If chips can be designed faster, it could speed up how quickly new AI systems are built and how much they cost to run, since better chips can be more efficient.

Source: TechCrunch AI