On stage at TechCrunch Disrupt, Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini, the founders of AlphaChip, are focusing on more efficient chips rather than ever more data centres.
Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini made a name for themselves with AlphaChip, an AI system capable of offering unusual chip layouts — including a ring-shaped layout that performs better than conventional plans. Their start-up, Ricursive Intelligence, raised $335 million in early 2026 at a valuation of $4 billion, and the two founders detailed their strategy on October 14 at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco.
Optimize the entire chip
Their systems design circuits, learn from each iteration, and use them to improve the next. Instead of cutting the chip into separately processed blocks, as is customary, they optimize the whole thing at once, resulting in complex, sometimes wavy patterns. They say that humans bring in the ideas and AI takes care of the execution.
Anna Goldie anticipates a demand for computing at least 10,000 times greater within five years and believes that meeting it by multiplying data centers is not sustainable: more efficient chips will be needed. Ricursive promises to reduce the design from several months or years to about a week, which would make custom chips for space, virtual or augmented reality, or biological computing cost-effective.
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