Subvolts take OpenAI partners with Broadcom to build custom AI chips, accelerating the path to AGI. Oct 13, 2025 - Developers
- Learn about the hardware infrastructure powering advanced AI models and potential future collaborations.
- Business
- Understand how strategic partnerships in hardware are shaping the competitive landscape for AI development.
This episode announces a significant partnership between OpenAI and Broadcom focused on custom AI hardware, a critical step for scaling AI.
OpenAI x Broadcom and the future of compute - Episode 8
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The OpenAI Podcast's eighth episode features Sam Altman and Greg Brockman discussing a new partnership with Broadcom's Hock Tan and Charlie Kawwas. They explore custom silicon, global infrastructure, and compute innovation's role in advancing AI toward AGI. The conversation covers the scale of AI infrastructure, chip design collaboration, and future visions for AI and compute capacity.
OpenAI is teaming up with Broadcom, a chip company, to create special computer parts for AI. This partnership aims to build bigger and better AI systems, moving closer to creating super-smart AI. It matters because faster, more powerful computers are needed for AI to learn and do more complex tasks.
This episode offers insight into OpenAI's strategic hardware partnerships, crucial for scaling AI development. It's for AI professionals, business leaders, and anyone tracking the race to AGI. The discussion on custom silicon and infrastructure directly relates to current frontier lab efforts to secure and optimize compute resources, a major bottleneck and competitive factor in AI advancement.
- HostAndrew Mayne
- GuestHock TanBroadcom
- GuestCharlie KawwasBroadcom
- Episode Title: OpenAI x Broadcom and the future of compute - Episode 8
- Show: The OpenAI Podcast
- Length: 29 minutes
- Guests: Hock Tan and Charlie Kawwas from Broadcom
- Topics Discussed: Custom silicon, global-scale infrastructure, compute innovation, AGI
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman from OpenAI sit down with Broadcom’s Hock Tan and Charlie Kawwas to discuss their new partnership—and what it means for the future of AI. From custom silicon to global-scale infrastructure, they share how compute innovation is shaping the road to AGI.
00:00 Announcing the partnership
03:06 The scale of AI infrastructure
06:03 Collaboration and innovation in chip design
08:49 Historical context and future vision
12:10 Role of compute in AI development
15:01 Optimizing for specific workloads
18:02 Journey towards AGI
21:00 Future of AI and compute capacity
23:50 Wrap-up and future projects
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- AGI
- Sam Altman, Hock Tan
- Artificial General Intelligence, a hypothetical AI that can understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can.
- compute
- Sam Altman, Hock Tan
- The processing power needed to run AI models and perform complex calculations.
- silicon
- Hock Tan, Charlie Kawwas
- Refers to computer chips, the physical components that perform calculations.
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Questions people ask
- What is the new partnership about?
- OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to develop custom silicon and global-scale infrastructure to advance AI development towards AGI.
- What topics are covered in the episode?
- The episode covers the scale of AI infrastructure, collaboration in chip design, the role of compute in AI, and the journey toward AGI.
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