OpenAI Partners With Broadcom To Deploy Custom AI Chips

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research company, has announced a partnership with semiconductor company Broadcom to deploy custom AI chips. This move is aimed at leveraging OpenAI's expertise in developing advanced AI models to create specialized hardware for its computationally intensive workloads. According to the announcement, the partnership will allow OpenAI to utilize Broadcom's chip design capabilities and manufacturing resources to develop custom AI accelerators tailored to the company's specific needs. This is expected to improve the efficiency and performance of OpenAI's AI systems, enabling them to handle the growing complexity and scale of their frontier AI models. The partnership is also seen as a strategic move by OpenAI to gain more control over its hardware infrastructure and reduce its reliance on third-party cloud providers, which can be costly and may not fully meet the unique requirements of advanced AI research and development.