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Ricursive Intelligence
Core neolabAI lab building self-improving systems, starting with AI-driven chip design
Raised, confirmed$300M1 confirmed round
Valuation, confirmed$4B26 Jan 2026
Valuation, reported—no open report
Founded2025Palo Alto, CA, US
Key facts
| Field | Value | Source · checked |
|---|---|---|
| Classification | Core neolabResearch lab founded by the creators of AlphaChip; $300M Series A at a $4B valuation led by Lightspeed (Jan 2026) | |
| Founded | 2025 | |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto, CA, USCity taken from on-site job listings; no headquarters statement found. | ricursive.comchecked 9 Nov 2026 |
| Founders | Anna Goldie, Azalia Mirhoseini | |
| Website | ricursive.com | ricursive.com Ricursive Intelligence is a frontier AI Lab focused on building self-improving systems, starting with chip design.checked 9 Nov 2026 |
| Careers | ricursive.com16 open roles on 9 Nov 2026 | ricursive.comchecked 9 Nov 2026 |
| Profiles and work | X @RicursiveAILinkedInHugging Face, 4 models | How links are checkedchecked 10 Nov 2026 |
Funding rounds
Ricursive Intelligence has raised $300M in rounds confirmed by the company, a regulator or two independent outlets. Rounds marked Reported or Abandoned are not included in that total. Status rules: methodology.
| Date | Round | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Status | Source · checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Jan 2026 | Series A | $300M | $4B | Lead: Lightspeed Venture Partners; NVIDIA | Confirmed | TechCrunch has raised $300 million at a $4 billion valuation. The company said Monday the round was led by Lightspeed.+1 more sourcechecked 9 Nov 2026 |
| 2025 | Seed | $35M | — | Lead: Sequoia | Reported | TechCrunch a couple of months after raising a $35 million seed round led by Sequoia.+1 more sourcechecked 9 Nov 2026 |
Notes on these rounds
- 26 Jan 2026 Series A: Total raised reported as $335M. Nvidia is named as an investor in the company, round participation not specified.
- 2025 Seed: Month not stated in sources.
People
| Name | Role | Before | Now | Source · checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anna GoldieXLinkedInScholarSite | Co-founder & CEO | Google Brain (Researcher), Anthropic (Early employee) | Current | techcrunch.com Ricursive was founded by former Google researchers CEO Anna Goldie and CTO Azalia Mirhoseini.checked 9 Nov 2026 |
| Azalia MirhoseiniXLinkedInScholarSite | Co-founder & CTO | Google Brain (Researcher), Anthropic (Early employee) | Current | techcrunch.com Ricursive was founded by former Google researchers CEO Anna Goldie and CTO Azalia Mirhoseini.checked 9 Nov 2026 |
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What it has shipped
| Name | Kind | Date | Open weights | Source · checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ripple-65B Preview | model | 4 Nov 2026 | Yes | huggingface.co Ricursive Intelligence introduces Ripple-65B Preview, a 65B parameter dense Transformer model pretrained on 12 trillion tokens with support for up to 1Mi (1,048,576 tokens) of context.checked 10 Nov 2026 |
| AlphaChip (prior work at Google) | paper | 2021 | — |
Latest posts on X
The most recent posts from @RicursiveAI, the X account of Ricursive Intelligence, quoted as posted. Replies and reposts are left out. How posts are selected.
Now live on Fireworks and Together as well! All inference endpoints available below: Fireworks: fireworks.ai/models/fireworks/ripple-65b-… Together: together.ai/models/ripple-65b-preview GMI Cloud: console.gmicloud.ai/model/llm/ripple-65b-… OpenRouter: openrouter.ai/ricursiveai/ripple-65b-prev…
Thank you for your kind words! Yes, our $32M R&D cost fully encompasses our pretraining ladder development, data mixing, evals, debugging, synthetic data generation, posttraining recipe development, and the final hero pre, mid, and posttraining run!
Thanks for a great partnership @nvidia!
checked 10 Nov 2026
Commonly cited, checked
Figures and statements about Ricursive Intelligence that circulate in lists and summaries, and what the sources support.
| Claim | Finding | Source |
|---|---|---|
| $335M raised at a $4B valuation | Consistent with sources: $35M seed (led by Sequoia) plus $300M Series A (led by Lightspeed) at $4B; $335M total as reported by TechCrunch. | techcrunch.com they last month announced a $300 million Series A round at a $4 billion valuation led by Lightspeed |
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