Ricursive Intelligence founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 14, 2026, discussing their development of an AI system that designs chips by learning from each iteration to automate and accelerate chip design. Goldie said compute demand will grow at least 10,000x in five years and called for improving chip, bandwidth, and fab efficiency instead of endlessly expanding data centers, with humans focusing on creativity and AI on execution. Their earlier system AlphaChip produced an unexpected but successful circular chip layout.