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ai morning #56 — openai's jalapeño chip claims 104x throughput-per-watt over nvidia gb300
OpenAI published benchmark numbers for its first custom inference chip. The claim: over 100 times more throughput per watt than Nvidia's best hardware at matched workloads. The announcement landed with six words. Perplexity then shipped a fully local agent that beats cloud-based harnesses on knowledge work benchmarks.
Marcus walks through what the Jalapeño numbers actually mean, why Sam Altman called out the chip by name with maximum understatement, and what both stories mean for builders choosing where their inference lives.
In this episode:
00:00 Intro
01:13 Jalapeño: 104x over Nvidia…
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