July 18 (Reuters) -
ChatGPT maker OpenAI is in discussion with chip designers,
including Broadcom ( AVGO ), about developing a new artificial
intelligence chip, the Information reported on Thursday, citing
people familiar with the matter.
OpenAI is exploring the idea of making AI chips on its own
to overcome the shortage of expensive graphic processing units
that it relies on to develop AI models such as ChatGPT, GPT-4,
and DALL-E3.
The Microsoft ( MSFT )-backed company is hiring former
Google employees who produced the online search giant's own AI
chip, the tensor processing unit, and has decided to develop an
AI server chip, the report added, citing three people who have
been involved.
"OpenAI is having ongoing conversations with industry and
government stakeholders about increasing access to the
infrastructure needed to ensure AI's benefits are widely
accessible," a spokesperson for OpenAI told the Information.
Bloomberg News reported earlier this year that OpenAI CEO
Sam Altman has plans to raise billions of dollars for setting up
a network of factories to manufacture semiconductors with
chipmakers Intel ( INTC ), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co ( TSM )
and Samsung Electronics ( SSNLF ) as potential
partners.