OpenAI Explores Making Own Chips or Acquiring Chip Company to Reduce AI Costs

OpenAI is considering making its own AI chips or acquiring a chip company due to shortage of processors and high costs of running ChatGPT.

OpenAI currently relies heavily on Nvidia for its chips, but wants to diversify suppliers.

Building own chips could cost OpenAI hundreds of millions of dollars and years of time.

OpenAI is also in talks with Jony Ive about possibly building an "iPhone for AI".

Companies like Google, Amazon, and Meta have acquired or built their own chips to run their AI systems.