# Azalia Mirhoseini

Co-founder, Ricursive Intelligence. TIME100 AI 2026, Innovators. She helped build an AI that Google used to design its own TPU chips, and now runs a startup where AI designs the chips that power AI. ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/azalia-mirhoseini-anna-goldie/))

- Born: Iran ([singjupost.com](https://singjupost.com/transcript-whos-paying-for-the-ai-boom-and-can-it-last-wtf-is-ai/))
- Education: PhD, Electrical and computer engineering, Rice University ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/azalia-mirhoseini-a5308522))
- Career: Ricursive Intelligence (Co-founder and CTO, 2025 to now); Stanford University (Assistant Professor of Computer Science, 2023 to now); DeepMind (Senior Staff Research Scientist, 2023–2025); Anthropic (Member of Technical Staff, 2022–2023); Google (Staff Research Scientist and Manager, 2016–2022) ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/azalia-mirhoseini-anna-goldie/), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/azalia-mirhoseini-a5308522), [azaliamirhoseini.com](https://www.azaliamirhoseini.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/azalia-mirhoseini

- Her AlphaChip project was one of the first uses of deep reinforcement learning on a real engineering problem, producing chip layouts in hours. ([azaliamirhoseini.com](https://www.azaliamirhoseini.com/))
- With future co-founder Anna Goldie she built an AI tool that Google used to help design several generations of its TPU chips. ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/azalia-mirhoseini-anna-goldie/))
- Helped introduce Mixture-of-Experts architectures for language models, showing efficient training of models with over 130 billion parameters. ([azaliamirhoseini.com](https://www.azaliamirhoseini.com/))
- Still runs a Stanford lab alongside the startup; its KernelBench benchmark has been adopted by Meta, Nvidia and Cognition AI. ([azaliamirhoseini.com](https://www.azaliamirhoseini.com/))
- Ricursive raised a $300 million Series A, including from Nvidia's venture arm, at a $4 billion valuation. ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/azalia-mirhoseini-anna-goldie/))
- Describes Ricursive's goal as a loop: AI makes better chips, and those chips power the next generation of AI. ([time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/azalia-mirhoseini-anna-goldie/))