OpenAI's Jalapeño Chip Reportedly Beats Nvidia Blackwell on Perf/Watt
petrusenko_max · x · 2026-08-26
OpenAI's in-house Jalapeño chip, built in approximately 16 months, reportedly outperforms Nvidia's Blackwell in performance-per-watt across nearly all inference scenarios involving single-token prediction without model tuning. It is designed as a generalized AI inference chip rather than being specialized for a single model.
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