OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño, their first custom artificial intelligence chip, and deliver initial silicon as they prepare rack deployment later this year.The Jalapeño application-specific integrated circuit is built for large language models and inference, promises about 50% cost savings versus graphics processing units according to Broadcom CEO Hock Tan, and is intended to complement Nvidia hardware.OpenAI president
Greg Brockman says the chip will support
ChatGPT and
Codex workloads, follows a $122B infrastructure funding round backed by
Apollo Global Management and
Blackstone, and factors into plans for an initial public offering that could value the company near $1T.