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<p><strong><span class="legendSpanClass">PALO ALTO </span></strong>&#8212; Ricursive Intelligence, a frontier AI lab founded by the co-creators of AlphaChip, has scored a $300 million Series A funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners at a $4 billion post-money valuation. The round follows Ricursive&#8217;s public launch less than two months earlier and includes participation from DST Global, NVentures (NVIDIA&#8217;s venture capital arm), Felicis Ventures, 49 Palms Ventures, Radical AI, and Sequoia Capital.</p>
<p>Ricursive Intelligence was founded by Dr. Anna Goldie and Dr. Azalia Mirhoseini, whose work on AlphaChip was instrumental in establishing AI-driven chip design and has since been adopted across four generations of TPU and deployed by external semiconductor companies. Ricursive is building a next-generation platform that closes the recursive feedback loop between AI models and the chips that power them, addressing what has become the primary bottleneck to AI progress: the slow, capital-intensive process of semiconductor design.</p>
<p>The new funding will be used to scale Ricursive&#8217;s world-class research and engineering team and significantly expand its compute infrastructure, enabling faster iteration across the full semiconductor design stack.</p>
<p>&#8220;The pace of AI progress is dictated by hardware,&#8221; said Dr. Anna Goldie, co-founder and CEO of Ricursive Intelligence. &#8220;Ricursive&#8217;s mission is to radically accelerate chip design, and ultimately to use AI to design its own silicon substrate. This funding will allow us to grow our world-class team and build the infrastructure necessary to meet this challenge.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;To advance the state of the art in AI, we must operate at the Pareto frontier of intelligence and computational efficiency,&#8221; said Dr. Azalia Mirhoseini, co-founder and CTO of Ricursive Intelligence. &#8220;Ricursive is building toward a future where rapid AI and hardware co-evolution becomes reality, unlocking significant gains in performance and energy efficiency. Together with our exceptional team, we are excited to drive this paradigm shift.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ricursive&#8217;s rapid follow-on financing reflects strong conviction from both AI and semiconductor industry leaders in the company&#8217;s world-class team, technical approach, and long-term vision.</p>
<p>&#8220;Ricursive is addressing what may be the most critical bottleneck facing the AI industry today: the gap between AI advancement and semiconductor capability,&#8221; said Guru Chahal, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. &#8220;Anna and Azalia pioneered a new approach to chip design with AlphaChip. At Ricursive, they&#8217;re building a full-stack platform that creates a continuous improvement cycle between AI models and the hardware that powers them. The caliber of the founding team, the ambition of what they&#8217;re building, combined with the technical progress they&#8217;ve already achieved, made this a clear investment for us. We&#8217;re thrilled to be partnering with Ricursive Intelligence.&#8221;</p>

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