OpenAI has been in talks with semiconductor designers including Broadcom about developing a new chip, as the artificial intelligence company looks to ease its reliance on Nvidia and bolster its supply chain.
The talks are part of efforts spearheaded by the company’s co-founder and chief executive Sam Altman to beef up the supply of components and infrastructure required to run increasingly powerful AI models.
“The limiting factor of AI is capacity: chip capacity, energy capacity, compute capacity. [OpenAI] is not just going to sit back and let others build [that] when they are on the front line,” said one person with knowledge of OpenAI’s plans.