OpenAI's Own Chip and Nvidia's Hugging Face Deal Signal Inference Economics War

Nvidia reportedly agreed to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion, while OpenAI unveiled its first in-house inference chip Jalapeño with Broadcom and Celestica. Alongside new releases like GLM-5.3 and budget open-source Qwen3.8-Flash, commentators see inference economics becoming the new battleground.

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