Hardware
19d agoOpenAI Unveils Jalapeño Inference Chip
OpenAI revealed Jalapeño, a custom chip designed to outperform Blackwell on performance per watt. Unlike a standard ASIC, this hardware targets the inference stack directly. It arrives less than a year after the company's Broadcom partnership.
The Signal
This move reduces reliance on external vendors and optimizes the cost of running massive models at scale.