The Information reports that OpenAI is in discussions with Broadcom to create a new AI chip
According to sources familiar with the matter, OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, is in talks with chip manufacturers such as Broadcom to collaborate on the development of a new artificial intelligence chip, as reported by The Information on Thursday.
OpenAI is exploring the idea of making AI chips on its own to overcome the shortage of expensive graphics processors it relies on to develop AI models such as ChatGPT, GPT-4 and DALL-E3.
The Microsoft-backed company is hiring former Google employees who produced the web search giant’s own artificial intelligence chip, the tensor processing unit, and has decided to develop an artificial intelligence server chip, the report added, citing three people involved.
“OpenAI is in ongoing discussions with industry and government stakeholders to increase the availability of the infrastructure needed to make the benefits of AI widely available,” an OpenAI spokesperson told Information.
Bloomberg News reported earlier this year that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman plans to raise billions of dollars to set up a network of semiconductor factories, with potential partners including Intel, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co and Samsung Electronics.
