OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip Could End Its Dependency on Nvidia — Here’s What You Need to Know
Reading Time: 5 minutesOpenAI and Broadcom have unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI’s first custom AI inference chip, built in just nine months and already running GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark internally. If its performance-per-watt claims hold up, it could dramatically lower the cost of running ChatGPT and give OpenAI a vertically integrated hardware advantage over rivals still renting Nvidia GPUs.