A flaming jalapeño character standing on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs

Know Your Enemy, Know Yourself, Part 7: A Model Trained on GPUs Builds a Better Chip Than GPUs

The era of using AI to build chips that run AI has arrived. Drawing on publicly released information about Jalapeño, OpenAI’s custom chip, this article explores what that means.

September 8, 2026 · 10 min · 2033 words