{"id":305400,"date":"2026-01-27T02:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/305400\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T02:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:29:08","slug":"ai-chip-startup-ricursive-hits-4b-valuation-two-months-after-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/305400\/","title":{"rendered":"AI chip startup Ricursive hits $4B valuation two months after launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ricursive Intelligence, a startup building an AI system to design and automatically improve AI chips, has raised $300 million at a $4 billion valuation. The company said Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/ricursive-intelligence-raises-300-million-series-a-at-4-billion-valuation-to-accelerate-ai-driven-semiconductor-design-302670061.html?tc=eml_cleartime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the round was led<\/a> by Lightspeed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ricursive says the system will be able to create its own silicon substrate layer and speed up AI chip improvements. Rinse and repeat to get to AGI, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricursive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">founders say.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Series A comes just two months since the company formally launched with a seed investment led by Sequoia. It has raised $335 million total, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/26\/technology\/recursive-ai-ricursive.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reports The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ricursive was founded by former Google researchers CEO Anna Goldie and CTO Azalia Mirhoseini. Their work on a novel reinforcement learning method for designing chip layouts, <a href=\"https:\/\/deepmind.google\/blog\/how-alphachip-transformed-computer-chip-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">called AlphaChip<\/a>, has been used in four generations of Google\u2019s TPU chip, the startup says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DST Global, Nvidia\u2019s venture capital arm NVentures, Felicis Ventures, 49 Palms Ventures, and Radical AI are also investors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ricursive is not to be confused with the similarly named startup Recursive, reportedly founded by well-known natural language processing neural networks researcher Richard Socher. That Recursive is also in talks to raise a giant round at a $4 billion valuation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-01-23\/ai-startup-recursive-in-funding-talks-at-4-billion-valuation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg reported<\/a> last week. And it is also working on AI systems that improve themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And these two are not the only new startups working on the concept. <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/12\/09\/unconventional-ai-confirms-its-massive-475m-seed-round\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">As TechCrunch previously reported<\/a>, Naveen Rao\u2019s new AI hardware startup, named Unconventional AI, is also working on an intelligent substrate. In December it raised a $475 million seed round at a $4.5 billion valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Ventures, with participation from Lux Capital and DCVC. <\/p>\n<p>Techcrunch event<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOctober 13-15, 2026\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ricursive Intelligence, a startup building an AI system to design and automatically improve AI chips, has raised $300&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,44485,289,290,18,19,6257,17,150067,150068,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-305400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-chip","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-in-brief","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-lightspeed-ventures","17":"tag-ricursive","18":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115964710925704862","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}