OpenAI's Jalapeño Chip Beats Nvidia's Flagship, Bezos Backed Founders Bet on Physics AI
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of August 26th, 2026. OpenAI published first benchmark results for Jalapeño, its custom chip built with Broadcom to run models rather than train them, with a 700 watt design outperforming Nvidia's 1,200 watt flagship by up to 3.6 times the speed and nearly double the work per watt, credited partly to OpenAI's own Astra model and Codex helping design it in just nine months, though the chip stays internal only and two more generations are already planned. Caltech professor Anima Anandkumar and engineer Benedikt Jenik launched Accelerated…
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