Reuters reports that OpenAI is \u201cunsatisfied\u201d with Nvidia\u2019s latest AI chips and has been seeking alternatives since last year, citing a whopping eight sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n
This news comes on the heels of a recent report from The Wall Street Journal that Nvidia\u2019s plan to invest $100 billion in OpenAI had stalled<\/a>.<\/p>\n Nvidia<\/a> CEO Jensen Huang seemingly confirmed the WSJ reporting in comments to the press over the weekend, but still struck a positive public tone on OpenAI, indicating that the chip designer would be participating in its upcoming funding round.<\/p>\n Sources inside OpenAI appear to be choosing a more combative response.<\/p>\n Per Reuters, the specific shortcoming OpenAI sees in Nvidia\u2019s offering involves inference, or the \u201cthinking\u201d being done by AI models.<\/p>\n Now, the idea that OpenAI is seeking alternatives to Nvidia, or at least additional sources, is well known: the ChatGPT maker struck highly publicized deals in October with Advanced Micro Devices<\/a> that the chip designer said would \u201cdeliver tens of billions of dollars in revenue\u201d<\/a> as well as custom chip specialist Broadcom<\/a> to develop and deploy 10 gigawatts<\/a> of custom AI accelerators.<\/p>\n So this really has the feel of, \u201cI dumped her, she didn\u2019t dump me!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reuters reports that OpenAI is \u201cunsatisfied\u201d with Nvidia\u2019s latest AI chips and has been seeking alternatives since last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-264557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}