> No progress on RL for chip design was published by Google since 2022, as far as I can tell.
This makes sense given that both authors of the paper left Google in 2022. And one no longer seems to work in the chip design space, plausibly because of the bullying by entrenched folks.
Then again, since rejoining Google the other author has produced around one patent per month in chip design with RL in 2023 and 2024, so perhaps they feel there is a marketable tool here that they don't want to share.