Gotta spend that money somewhere.
OpenAI would like to stop being so reliant on Nvidia to handle its processing needs. To address that, the artificial intelligence startup is reportedly teaming up with Broadcom to develop its own chips, set to be available starting next year, according to the Financial Times.
The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI’s deal with the US-based semiconductor firm will see the two work together to create custom artificial intelligence chips, which will be used internally by OpenAI to train and run its new ChatGPT models and other AI products. The deal will reportedly put $10 billion into the pockets of Broadcom, which had announced a mystery deal on Thursday that apparently didn’t stay all that mysterious for long.
The deal probably shouldn’t be too big a surprise, just given the sheer volume of demand that Nvidia is currently tasked with fulfilling.
