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OpenAI Unveils Custom AI Chip 'Jalapeño'
24 Jun
Summary
- OpenAI and Broadcom collaborated on the custom AI chip named Jalapeño.
- The Jalapeño chip is designed for AI inference tasks, crucial for chatbots.
- OpenAI plans to deploy the new chip by the end of this year.
OpenAI has revealed its first custom-designed artificial intelligence chip, codenamed Jalapeño, developed in partnership with Broadcom. This initiative seeks to bolster the AI firm's infrastructure capabilities and mitigate the escalating costs of computing power for advanced AI models.
The Jalapeño processor is engineered for a specific AI function known as inference, which is vital for processing data and generating responses for chatbots such as ChatGPT. OpenAI has indicated that this new chip's performance is competitive with leading offerings from companies like Nvidia and Google.
OpenAI engineers designed the chip, with Broadcom providing crucial design services. The manufacturing of the server systems that will house the Jalapeño chips will be handled by Celestica. OpenAI has already tested samples of the chip in its labs, confirming its performance and efficiency with its GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark AI model.
This chip marks the initial phase of a multi-generational development plan for OpenAI's custom silicon. The company anticipates deploying Jalapeño by the close of this year, signaling a strategic move to gain more control over its AI hardware ecosystem.
