Azalea Amir-Hosseini

AI for Chip Design & Chip Design for AI | Ricursive Intelligence | RAISE Summit 2026

Anna Goldie, Azalia Mirhoseini, Azalea Amir-Hosseini

Founded by former Google Brain engineers Anna Goldie and Azalea Amir-Hosseini, Recursive Intelligence deploys its AlphaChip reinforcement learning system to replace months of manual chip design with superhuman layout generation that runs 1,000 times faster than commercial tools. The company is currently in Phase One, accelerating physical design for major manufacturers like NVIDIA and AMD, while its roadmap targets a "design-less" future where companies specify workloads to receive co-optimized hardware instantly. Ultimately, Recursive aims to close a recursive self-improving loop by eventually building its own chips and models, promising up to 20x performance gains through microarchitectural customization.