OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip: How Its Custom AI Processor Challenges NVIDIA Blackwell on Inference
1. Introduction — OpenAI Is Building Its Own AI Silicon OpenAI is moving deeper into the physical hardware layer. The company is no longer just training frontier foundation models; it is systematically engineering the entire compute stack: Models → Software → Chips → Memory → Networking → Data Centers At the Hot Chips 2026 conference, … Read more