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OpenAI Unveils First Custom AI Chip ‘Jalapeño’ to Deliver Faster LLM Inference, Power Next-Gen AI

9:40 PM IST · June 25, 2026

OpenAI on Thursday unveiled its first custom-designed artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator called Jalapeño. It has been developed in collaboration with California-based semiconductor giant Broadcom. Instead of training, the San Francisco-based company describes it as an “Intelligence Processor” that is purpose-built for large language model (LLM) inference. It is claimed to deliver better performance per watt than current state-of-the-art solutions around compute, memory, and networking requirements.