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Report: OpenAI will launch its own AI chip next year


The company behind ChatGPT is working with Broadcom to create its own custom GPUs, which it will reportedly use exclusively for internal purposes.

The ChatGPT-maker will start mass-producing its first in-house graphics processing unit (GPU) in partnership with US chipmaker Broadcom next year, according to a Thursday report from the Financial Times. The report followed a Thursday statement from Broadcom CEO Hock Tan to investors that the company had secured a$10 billion deal with an unnamed new customer in order to build new AI chips. Originally invented to render video game graphics, GPUs have become the technological cornerstone of the ongoing generative AI boom, fueling chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude.

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