OpenAI's Jalapeño AI chip named to TIME's Best Inventions of 2026
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TIME includes OpenAI's Jalapeño, the company's first AI-acceleration chip, in its Best Inventions of 2026 list, OpenAI Newsroom says on X. OpenAI VP of Hardware Richard Ho says the chip is designed to bring useful AI to more people more efficiently.
OpenAI says it will keep innovating across models, silicon, and its software stack.
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OpenAI Newsroom@OpenAINewsroomOfficialOpenAI's Jalapeño AI chip named to TIME's Best Inventions of 2026AITIME includes OpenAI's Jalapeño, the company's first AI-acceleration chip, in its Best Inventions of 2026 list. OpenAI VP Hardware Richard Ho says the chip is designed to bring useful AI to more people more efficiently, and that OpenAI will keep innovating across model, silicon, and stack.

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