OpenAI Explores Making Own Chips or Acquiring Chip Company to Reduce AI Costs
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OpenAI is considering making its own AI chips or acquiring a chip company due to shortage of processors and high costs of running ChatGPT.
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OpenAI currently relies heavily on Nvidia for its chips, but wants to diversify suppliers.
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Building own chips could cost OpenAI hundreds of millions of dollars and years of time.
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OpenAI is also in talks with Jony Ive about possibly building an "iPhone for AI".
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Companies like Google, Amazon, and Meta have acquired or built their own chips to run their AI systems.
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