OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Custom A.I. Chip Design

The maker of ChatGPT plans to use enough chips to consume 10 gigawatts of electricity, an amount that could power millions of households.

By Cade Metz

Broadcom stock needs a win. The new OpenAI co-designed Jalapeno chip might do the trick

The news involving OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, comes as Broadcom stock fights to get back on track.

Altman’s OpenAI just built its first chip, Jalapeño, and why Nvidia should be worried

OpenAI has unveiled Jalapeño, its first in-house AI chip, designed with Broadcom to run the models behind ChatGPT and Codex. Built for inference rather than training, the chip is pitched on efficiency, with OpenAI claiming far better performance per watt than off-the-shelf options. The move cuts its reliance on Nvidia and puts OpenAI alongside Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta in building custom silicon. First deployments are expected by year’s end, scaling through 2027.

By TOI TECH DESK

"Democratizing AI": OpenAI, Broadcom Unveil New AI Chip As Sam Altman Pushes For Full Control Of Compute Stack

"Democratizing AI": OpenAI, Broadcom Unveil New AI Chip As Sam Altman Pushes For Full Control Of Compute Stack OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI's first custom AI accelerator, as Sam Altman's chatbot maker pushes to control more of its data center chip stack and drive greater efficiency to lower inference costs. The new chip is described as an "Intelligence Processor" and was designed from scratch for large language model inference, the compute-intensive process of s...

By Tyler Durden