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OpenAI is building an in-house AI chip with Broadcom.
The effort is likely the result of a partnership valued at $10 billion.
Many AI companies are launching their own chipmaking operations.
OpenAI is gearing up to launch its own AI chip, part of a broader industry effort to gain independence from third-party semiconductor companies.
The ChatGPT-maker will start mass-producing its first in-house graphics processing unit (GPU) in partnership with US chipmaker Broadcom next year, according to a Thursday report from the Financial Times. The chip will reportedly be used internally by OpenAI rather than sold to other businesses.
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The report followed a Thursday statement from Broadcom CEO Hock Tan to investors that the company had secured a $10 billion deal with an unnamed new customer in order to build new AI chips. Many analysts believed that the new client was OpenAI, a suspicion which was later confirmed by the Wall Street Journal.
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