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Another day, another AI mega raise.

, a frontier AI lab, announced on Monday that it has raised $300 million in a Series A round of funding at a $4 billion valuation.

Notably, the financing comes just two months after the Palo Alto, California-based company鈥檚 launch. Ricursive just raised its 鈥� a $35 million haul at a $750 million valuation in early December.

led the latest round, which included participation from , (鈥檚 venture capital arm), 1, , 听补苍诲 . Sequoia led Ricursive鈥檚 seed financing.

Founded by (CEO) and (CTO), who worked on AI for chip design at DeepMind, Ricursive purports to be building a platform 鈥渢hat closes the recursive feedback loop between AI and the chips that power it.鈥� The company claims that since chip design has become a significant bottleneck to AI progress, its approach allows AI to 鈥渃ontinuously improve the silicon it depends on, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of advancement.鈥�

Goldie and Mirhoseini also created AlphaChip, which they claim has been deployed across four generations of Google’s TPU and by external semiconductor companies.

鈥淩icursive is building toward a future where rapid AI and hardware co-evolution becomes reality, unlocking significant gains in performance and energy efficiency,鈥� said Mirhoseini in a statement.

, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, said in a release: “Anna and Azalia pioneered a new approach to chip design with AlphaChip. At Ricursive, they’re building a full-stack platform that creates a continuous improvement cycle between AI models and the hardware that powers them.

On Jan. 20, , a new AI lab founded by top researchers from Google, , , and , among others, announced it had raised a massive $480 million seed round at a staggering $4.48 billion valuation.

Correction: An earlier version listed an incorrect investor. The story has been updated to list as an investor.

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