OpenAI's first AI chip brings the heat

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Good morning, AI enthusiasts, and welcome to our 3,221 new readers. OpenAI named its first in-house AI chip Jalapeño, and the first benchmarks just came out appropriately spicy. The company's internal tests have the chip beating Nvidia's flagship GPUs on both speed and power efficiency, with a design OpenAI credits its Astra model and Codex…

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