OpenAI, which developed ChatGPT, is discussing with U.S. chipmaker Broadcom to develop its own chip. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who has been pushing to create his own chip that serves as Generative AI’s brain, is developing a way to collaborate with Broadcom. Broadcom makes and sells application-specific semiconductors (ASICs) for tech companies such as Google. OpenAI is also said to have recruited engineers from Google’s AI chip development department. However, even if a chip is developed, actual production will not be possible until 2026, he said.
As the supply of chips monopolized by Nvidia becomes scarce due to the Generative AI craze, big tech companies such as Microsoft (MS), Google, and Amazon are developing their own chips with the aim of reducing dependence on Nvidia.
CEO Altman is also working on a project to build his own chip and design manufacturing supply chain. He is discussing financing with Middle Eastern investors and Taiwanese and Japanese companies, and has also discussed opinions with domestic companies such as Samsung Electronics.
With the announcement of developing its own chips, OpenAI has released a small version of its latest AI model, the ‘GPT-4o Mini’.
OpenAI said the GPT-4o Mini is “the most capable and cost-effective AI model available today,” adding, “We plan to integrate image, video, and voice functions in the future.”
The GPT-4o Mini is priced at $0.15 per 1 million input tokens (basic units of words or sentences) and $0.60 per 1 million output tokens. It is more than 60 percent cheaper than the GPT-3.5 Turbo.
Affordable prices do not mean that the GPT-4o Mini has achieved 82 percent of correct answers in the large-scale multi-tasking language comprehension test (MMLU). The GPT-4o Mini has a lower percentage of correct answers than GPT-4 (86.4 percent), but the figure is even higher than Google’s smaller AI models Gemini Flash (77.9 percent) and Anthropic’s Claude Haiku (73.8 percent).
The GPT-4o mini is available to ChatGPT Plus and Team subscribers and users of ChatGPT Enterprise, an enterprise model.
SOPHIA KIM
US ASIA JOURNAL
