Aug. 25 at 3:17 PM
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SemiAnalysis says OpenAI Jalapeno 'better than Nvidia Blackwell'
OpenAI has spent the past couple years quietly building "Jalapeno," an inference chip just announced at Hot Chips. OpenAI invited SemiAnalysis to look at their chip, go to their labs to check out how real it is, and benchmark it with our InferenceX suite, Bryan Shan, Myro Xie, Jordan Nanos, Wega Chu, Clara Fe and Dylan Patel write. In general, first-generation chips are not competitive, the authors say, but OpenAI bucks the trend by being "industry leading and beating every Nvidia (NVDA), AMD (AMD), and Google (GOOGL) chip we have been able to test on multiple top open source models."