OpenAI built its own AI chip to cut its dependence on Nvidia
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI's first custom AI chip — built for inference (running already-trained models, not training them) and, by OpenAI's own benchmarks, beating Nvidia's Blackwell chips on performance per watt in most tests.
For the 806: Nvidia chips are the single biggest cost and bottleneck in building AI today. If OpenAI's own chip works as claimed at real scale, running AI gets cheaper and less dependent on one supplier — which matters for how fast AI can grow and what it costs everyone downstream.