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Hardware and chips

AI used to design the chips, boards and systems that AI then runs on.

ProjectGoogle DeepMind
AlphaChip
  1. RL agent lays out TPU blocks
  2. Better layouts make AI hardware cheaper
  3. Agent pre-trains on earlier chip generations
  4. repeat
Hardware and chipsGoogle DeepMind, Google Research · 2020
ProjectarXiv
Redwood
  1. AI system writes accelerator hardware
  2. Qwen runs on the new accelerator
  3. Qwen finds optimizations for the accelerator
  4. Optimizations improve next accelerator generation
  5. repeat
Hardware and chipsArchitect Labs · 2026
Projectricursive.com
Ricursive Intelligence
  1. AI systems would design chips
  2. Chips would train more capable AI
  3. That AI designs the next chips
  4. repeat
Hardware and chipsRicursive Intelligence (Anna Goldie, Azalia Mirhoseini) · 2025

Other loop types

Self-modifying agentsTools and harnessTraining dataSelf-reward and self-playKernels and compilersInference efficiencyArchitecture and optimizer searchResearch automationAI R&D evalsInterpretability and oversight