OpenAI's Jalapeño: Custom Chip Signals AI Compute Independence
ALEX: Welcome to The AI Daily Roundup for June 25th, 2026. OpenAI just announced their first custom AI inference chip — they're calling it Jalapeño — and it's a signal that the compute independence race is very much on. SARAH: That's a big deal. Custom silicon is exactly how Google built its TPU moa…
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