Nvidia plans custom chip venture, pitches product to Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI
Could also build custom telecoms, automotive, and video game chips
News - IT Hardware & Semiconductors, OpenAI
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman reportedly seeking up to $7 trillion for AI chip manufacturing venture
Comes after Altman posted that the world needs more AI infrastructure, including data centers
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman in talks with Congress regarding global semiconductor supply
Comes after reports that Altman has been courting Middle Eastern investors for an AI chip venture
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OpenAI's Sam Altman in discussions with investors and chip manufacturers for AI chip venture
Altman reportedly first floated the idea before he was ousted and reinstated as CEO in 2023
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OpenAI promised to buy $51m chips from Sam Altman-backed neuromorphic chip company Rain AI
Keeping it in the family
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OpenAI hires Google's Todd Underwood to head Site Reliability Engineering team
Creator of the Machine Learning Site Reliability Engineering (ML SRE) organization at Google
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OpenAI appoints former Google TPU lead as head of hardware, hiring for "experts in data center facility design"
Chip engineer Richard Ho leads new division at the generative AI startup to help "influence roadmaps for hardware partners for data center networks, racks, and buildings"
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Before he was fired, OpenAI's Altman sought billions for AI chip venture
But is now at Microsoft, which has its own AI chips
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Microsoft announces in-house Arm CPU and AI accelerator chips, custom racks
Azure Cobalt 100 and Azure Maia 100 mark company's entry into custom chip game
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OpenAI considers making its own AI chips, acquiring hardware business
As it looks to reduce its reliance on Nvidia
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Nvidia announces H100 GPU SKU aimed at large language model and generative AI workloads
H100 NVL maximizes memory capacity