Frontier Labs Use Internal Models to Accelerate Hardware-Software Co-Design
yacineMTB · x · 2026-08-26
A discussion suggests frontier labs can co-design hardware-software stacks faster than Nvidia/AMD due to access to cutting-edge internal models. A specific case cites GPT-Astra helping develop the Jalapeño chip. The team used Codex with GPT-Astra to bring three open-weight models, not originally part of the plan, to high performance within two months.
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