OpenAI reveals its first AI processor: Jalapeño

Published Jun 24, 2026 • 2:36 PM

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The chip, called Jalapeño, is designed to power current and future large language models, according to an announcement on Wednesday.
Jalapeño is an ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit), meaning it's designed for a specific purpose: AI inference.
With AI inference, models process a user's request to run an agent like Codex or offer a response from ChatGPT…
It comes just nine months after OpenAI revealed that it would team up with Br … Read the full story at The Verge.

OpenAI has just revealed a new "intelligence processor" chip for AI servers made in partnership with Broadcom. The chip, called Jalapeño, is designed to power current and future large language models, according to an announcement on Wednesday.

Jalapeño is an ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit), meaning it's designed for a specific purpose: AI inference. With AI inference, models process a user's request to run an agent like Codex or offer a response from ChatGPT, while AI training involves a model consuming vast amounts of data to inform its responses.

It comes just nine months after OpenAI revealed that it would team up with Br …

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- OpenAI reveals its first AI processor: JalapeñoYou are here
- OpenAI unveils first custom AI inference chip, Jalapeño, with Broadcom — and its development was sped-up with OpenAI's own modelsVentureBeat
- "Democratizing AI": OpenAI, Broadcom Unveil New AI Chip As Sam Altman Pushes For Full Control Of Compute StackZeroHedge

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