# Anna Goldie

Co-founder, Ricursive Intelligence. TIME100 AI 2026, Innovators. 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. ([annagoldie.com](https://www.annagoldie.com/))

- Education: PhD, Computer science, Stanford University; MEng, Electrical engineering and computer science, MIT; BS, Computer science, MIT, 2009; BS, Linguistics, MIT, 2009 ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adgoldie), [annagoldie.com](https://www.annagoldie.com/))
- Career: Ricursive Intelligence (Founder and CEO, 2025 to now); DeepMind (Senior Staff Research Scientist, 2023–2025); Anthropic (Member of Technical Staff, 2022–2023); Google (Staff Research Scientist / Tech Lead, 2013–2022); TripAdvisor (Software Engineer, 2011–2013) ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adgoldie), [time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/azalia-mirhoseini-anna-goldie/), [annagoldie.com](https://www.annagoldie.com/))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/azalia-mirhoseini-anna-goldie/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/anna-goldie

- The AlphaChip system she co-led has been used to lay out four generations of Google's TPU AI chips, plus datacenter CPUs. ([annagoldie.com](https://www.annagoldie.com/))
- Earned a second MIT bachelor's degree in linguistics alongside computer science before moving into language and systems research. ([annagoldie.com](https://www.annagoldie.com/))
- Co-founded and led Google Brain's ML for Systems team, which applied reinforcement learning to computer systems problems like chip design. ([annagoldie.com](https://www.annagoldie.com/))
- Worked on two rival frontier models back to back: Claude as an early Anthropic employee, then Gemini at Google DeepMind. ([annagoldie.com](https://www.annagoldie.com/))
- Wants to cut new chip design from years to months, weeks, maybe even days eventually. ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/azalia-mirhoseini-anna-goldie/))
- Ricursive raised a $300 million Series A at a $4 billion valuation, with Nvidia's venture arm among the investors. ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/azalia-mirhoseini-anna-goldie/))