Anna Goldie
Co-founder, Ricursive Intelligence
The AI chip designer she co-led has laid out four generations of Google's TPU chips; now her startup is a frontier AI lab targeting chip design.
- Born
- Not published
- Now
- Founder and CEO, Ricursive Intelligence
- Studied
- Stanford University, MIT
Interesting facts
- Before AI
Earned a second MIT bachelor's degree in linguistics alongside computer science before moving into language and systems research.
annagoldie.com - First
Co-founded and led Google Brain's ML for Systems team, which applied reinforcement learning to computer systems problems like chip design.
annagoldie.com - Connection
Worked on two rival frontier models back to back: Claude as an early Anthropic employee, then Gemini at Google DeepMind.
annagoldie.com - In their words
Wants to cut new chip design from years to months, weeks, maybe even days eventually.
time.com - Numbers
Ricursive raised a $300 million Series A at a $4 billion valuation, with Nvidia's venture arm among the investors.
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Career
- Ricursive IntelligenceFounder and CEO2025 to now
- DeepMindSenior Staff Research Scientist2023–2025
- AnthropicMember of Technical Staff2022–2023
- GoogleStaff Research Scientist / Tech Lead, Google Brain2013–2022
- TripAdvisorSoftware Engineer2011–2013
Education
- PhD, Computer science, Stanford University
- MEng, Electrical engineering and computer science, MIT
- BS, Computer science, MIT, 2009
- BS, Linguistics, MIT, 2009
