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“If we can make AI make better chips, then those chips can power the next generation of AI models.” Startup ‘Ricursive Intelligence,’ founded by Azalia Mirhoseini and Anna Goldie, has been building AI tools to do just that: to speed up the chip design process. The company’s name is...

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