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Google data center strategic sourcing exec heads to OpenAI
Allyson Fealtman to focus on high-speed interconnect and rack power
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Microsoft's senior director of AI systems hardware architecture joins OpenAI
Wilson Vu to work on OpenAI's compute architecture
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Samsung working with OpenAI on next-generation chips - report
Building on memory deal signed last year
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Former OpenAI Stargate exec Shamez Hemani joins Anthropic after brief Meta Compute stint
Was one of a group of departures to Meta's compute team
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OpenAI details Jalapeño AI chip, with 700W TDP
At Hot Chips, company touts its first foray into hardware
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Nvidia considers $250bn backstop for OpenAI's planned 10GW Ohio data center - report
SoftBank facility is planned on Department of Energy land
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OpenAI to deploy AMD Helios rackscale system as first part of up to 6GW partnership
Company has already tested the beefy AI rack
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Uday Ruddarraju named OpenAI's CTO of Compute
Former xAI staffer celebrates one-year anniversary at company
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OpenAI: "New bet" to partner with semiconductor companies, using AI to optimize chip design
After it used its own models to help co-design the Jalapeño AI chip with Broadcom
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OpenAI and Broadcom unveil 'Jalapeño' Intelligence Processor for LLM inference
"A blank-slate design for modern LLM inference, not a general-purpose accelerator adapted from earlier AI workloads"
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OpenAI's custom chip program lead Clive Chan joins Anthropic
Had been working on Broadcom AI chip, expected later this year
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OpenAI and Broadcom in discussions over financing of $18bn custom chip project – report
Broadcom’s investment in initial project phase reportedly tied to Microsoft purchase commitments
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OpenAI president Greg Brockman owns stakes in Cerebras, CoreWeave, Stripe, and Helion
All companies with which OpenAI has entered into business deals
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Big chip company Cerebras files to go public
Will IPO under CBRS
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OpenAI closes funding round, raises $122bn at $852bn valuation
More money to pour into compute
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Nvidia, Broadcom form group to standardize optical interconnects for next-gen AI clusters
OCI-MSA looks to drive open 'plug-and-play ecosystem’ in the notoriously fierce optics market
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OpenAI to use 2GW of Trainium on AWS, expand Amazon cloud contract by $100bn
After Amazon pumps $50bn into the AI company
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OpenAI cuts projected compute spend to $600bn by 2030 - report
CEO has previously talked up $1.4 trillion spend over eight years
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Nvidia plans $30bn investment in upcoming OpenAI funding round
Generative AI giant is seeking a $730 billion valuation
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Cerebras Systems raises $1bn at $23bn valuation
Fundraise comes two weeks after company announced $10bn deal with OpenAI
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AMD reports record Q4 and FY25 results, but shares slump after company forecasts Q1 revenue decline
Company saw $440m of sales to China during the year, and is in discussions with customers for multi-year Helios deployments
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OpenAI execs defend Nvidia after claims startup is unhappy with inference hardware performance
Comes in same week Nvidia CEO downplays $100bn investment pledge in OpenAI
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Nvidia CEO says company will make a 'huge' investment in OpenAI, but it won't be $100bn
As company pushes back on claims that Jensen Huang was frustrated with OpenAI and its lack of discipline
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OpenAI CFO says company ended 2025 with 1.9GW of compute, scaled revenue at same speed
Claims a clear correlation between aggressive data center ramp-up and rising revenue
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OpenAI invests in brain-computer interface startup founded by OpenAI CEO
Merge Labs emerged from stealth last week following a $252 million seed round
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OpenAI signs $10 billion deal with Cerebras, with 750MW of big-chip compute
As ChatGPT continues to expand its chip portfolio
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CoreWeave deploys 16,000 GPUs at delayed data center in Denton, Texas
Internal messages note that the milestone was hit under "intense spotlight"
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SoftBank races to find $22.5bn to pay OpenAI - report
Stargate is an expensive business