OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, is developing its own artificial intelligence chip named Jalapeño. The company claims that this first AI chip will provide higher speed for AI model operation while reducing power consumption.
This move is expected to be highly significant as it will help improve artificial intelligence support and reduce the company's dependence on Nvidia. Although ChatGPT is already popular as a chatbot, the company is now aiming to expand into hardware by designing devices on which AI models run.
Partnership with Broadcom
Jalapeño is a specialized custom chip designed specifically for running AI models. The company prepared it in partnership with Broadcom.
Design Focused on Energy Efficiency
OpenAI announced that the chip is designed to demonstrate high performance with low energy consumption and minimal response time. The company tested it on several selected AI models, including GPT-OSS 120B, Deepseek R1, and Kimi K2.5 1T.
According to OpenAI's statements, the Jalapeno chipset solved one of the serious problems in AI hardware—achieving high performance without increasing latency. The Jalapeno chipset is specifically created for the inference process. Inference can be understood as the process where a trained AI model processes a user request and generates a response, such as when a user asks a question to ChatGPT.
The company's goal is to ensure complete performance and efficiency by adapting the chip, software, memory, network infrastructure, and service system to its own models.