The Recursive Loop Has Started: AI Is Now Designing AI Chips
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The Recursive Loop Has Started: AI Is Now Designing AI Chips In 2020, Google DeepMind published a paper in Nature. They used reinforcement learning to automatically generate chip floorplans that outperformed human designers. Named AlphaChip, this method has been deployed in production for three consecutive generations of Google's TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) (per Google). AI designs the chip. The chip runs AI. That AI designs the next chip. This isn't science fiction — it's 2026 real