OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip can power faster AI responses than the competition

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OpenAI says its new AI chip, Jalapeño, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI systems, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. During a briefing with reporters, OpenAI hardware vice president Richard Ho said Jalapeño offers the “best of both worlds” with lower latency and higher throughput, as AI systems typically “have to make a trade-off between the two.”

First introduced in June, Jalapeño is an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) made in partnership with Broadcom. It’s designed for AI inference — the process of running a trained AI model to complete a task or deploy an agent.

To measure Jalapeño’s performance, OpenAI used InferenceX, a benchmarking platform that shows how well AI systems handle inference....

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