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Ricursive Intelligence Raises $335M to Build AI-Powered Chip Design Platform
Ricursive Intelligence, founded by former Google Brain and Anthropic engineers Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini, raised $335 million at a $4 billion valuation to develop AI tools that automate chip design. Their platform, based on their acclaimed Alpha Chip work at Google, uses reinforcement learning to generate chip layouts in hours instead of years, learning and improving across multiple designs. The company aims to accelerate AI advancement by enabling faster co-evolution of AI models and the chips that power them, potentially achieving 10x efficiency improvements.
Skynet Chance (+0.04%): The capability for AI to design its own hardware creates a potential recursive self-improvement loop, reducing human oversight in critical infrastructure design. This increases autonomy and capability scaling, though the founders emphasize efficiency benefits and the technology remains in early commercial stages.
Skynet Date (-1 days): By dramatically accelerating chip design cycles and enabling faster co-evolution of AI models with their underlying hardware, this technology could significantly speed up AI capability advancement. The founders explicitly state this will allow "AI to grow smarter faster," directly accelerating the timeline for advanced AI systems.
AGI Progress (+0.04%): This represents a meaningful advancement toward AGI by addressing a key bottleneck: hardware design speed. The ability to rapidly iterate on specialized AI chips and enable faster co-evolution of models and hardware directly supports the scaling and optimization required for AGI development.
AGI Date (-1 days): The platform substantially accelerates chip development from years to hours and enables rapid hardware-software co-optimization, removing a major constraint on AI advancement pace. The founders explicitly position this as enabling faster AI evolution, with potential 10x efficiency improvements that could dramatically accelerate AGI timelines.