OpenAI, the corporate behind synthetic intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, is reportedly exploring the opportunity of manufacturing processing chips in-house amid a worldwide scarcity of the costly and troublesome to supply {hardware}.
An Oct. 5 Reuters report citing folks acquainted with the matter stated OpenAI has even evaluated an unnamed firm as a possible goal for an acquisition to assist with its AI chip making ambitions.
The corporate has not but determined if it would transfer on the acquisition. OpenAI has additionally been internally discussing quite a few different choices to deal with the present chip scarcity.
Beside constructing its personal chips, the choices embrace working extra carefully with its present major chip provider NVIDIA and diversifying chip suppliers past its present suppliers.
Earlier this yr, OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman complained to a room stuffed with AI builders that chip shortages had been delaying his firm’s progress, based on a now-deleted weblog publish written by Raza Habib, the CEO of AI agency Humanloop.
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“A typical theme that got here up all through the dialogue was that at present OpenAI is extraordinarily GPU-limited and that is delaying lots of their short-term plans,” Habib wrote.
If OpenAI does proceed with the reported plan to fabricate its personal chips, it would be a part of a small group of tech trade heavyweights, together with Google and Amazon, that moved chip manufacturing in-house.
For the reason that public launch of ChatGPT in November final yr the demand for specialised AI chips has skyrocketed.
The following wave of demand has seen NVIDIA’s share worth surge as corporations seeking to construct AI functions clamor to buy the expensive computing {hardware}.
OpenAI didn’t instantly reply to Cointelgraph’s request for remark.
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