OpenAI on Wednesday, June 24, unveiled its first custom AI chip developed in partnership with Broadcom, marking a significant step forward in the ChatGPT-maker’s efforts to reduce its reliance on Nvidia chips and take greater control over the infrastructure powering its AI products.
Named ‘Jalapeño’, the custom Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) has been designed for inference workloads, which involves running large language models (LLMs) on previously unseen data to improve the overall quality of their responses.
Jalapeño is part of OpenAI’s broader efforts to build the full stack behind its models and products. It marks the Microsoft-backed startup’s foray into AI silicon, targeting the booming inference market where rivals such as Google, Amazon, and Groq already offer their own custom processors.
For Broadcom, the launch reinforces its position as the leading partner for hyperscalers, frontier labs, and other companies to create their own custom chips for AI training and inference.
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