In-Depth Review of Jalapeño: OpenAI’s First In-House Inference ASIC
OpenAI, in collaboration with Broadcom, unveiled “Jalapeño,” a proprietary ASIC dedicated to inference.
OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research company founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, USA; its core mission is to develop safe Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and ensure it benefits all of humanity, and it currently operates as a “capped-profit” hybrid organization.
OpenAI, in collaboration with Broadcom, unveiled “Jalapeño,” a proprietary ASIC dedicated to inference.
Lu Siyuan, head of AI Infra at XPeng Motors, will be leaving the company and may join OpenAI’s Infra team.
On July 15, 2026, Bloomberg exclusively revealed OpenAI’s first consumer-grade hardware (internal codename Project Echo). This product, resembling a screenless portable speaker, is officially positioned not as a traditional audio-visual device, but as a unified AI computing hub for the whole home, a physical home computer called ChatGPT. It is expected to launch globally in … Read more