New York —
OpenAI on Wednesday announced its first custom AI chip in a step towards expanding beyond consumer products to become a player in AI infrastructure.
The processor, called Jalapeño, was developed with Broadcom to more efficiently handle the computing needs for ChatGPT and OpenAI’s coding agent, Codex, the company said in a blog post. It’s also designed to handle workloads for future AI developments, OpenAI claims.
“While OpenAI is still measuring final performance, early testing shows that Jalapeño will deliver performance per watt substantially better than current state-of-the-art,” the company said.
OpenAI and Broadcom announced plans to develop custom chips to power 10 gigawatts worth of computing last year, but only unveiled the first chip from that partnership on Wednesday.
