Ricursive Intelligence bets on AI-designed chips to ease compute crisis

Ricursive Intelligence founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to explain how their startup uses AI to design chips, learn from each iteration, and speed up the process. They estimate compute demand will grow at least 10,000x in five years, so more efficient chips are needed instead of more data centers.

• Compute demand will grow at least 10,000x in five years, the founders said
• The AI optimizes whole chips rather than partitioning them into dozens of blocks
• Their earlier AlphaChip system produced a donut-shaped chip layout
• Week-long chip design could make custom chips viable for AR, VR and space