Openai, standing behind ChatGPT, is considering creating its own chips for artificial intelligence. As part of this study, she even evaluated potential objects for acquisition, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans.
At the moment, the company has not yet made the final decision on the creation of chips, but considers various options to solve the problem of the shortage of expensive AI chips on which Openai depends. The options under consideration include the creation of your own AI chip, strengthening cooperation with other chips manufacturers, including NVIDIA, as well as expansion of the circle of suppliers.
The General Director of Openai, Sam Altman, considers the acquisition of more AI chips priority for the company. He expressed his concern about the deficiency of graphic processors, the market of which is 80% controlled by nvidia.
Since 2020, Openai has been developing its technologies of generative artificial intelligence on a powerful supercomputer created by Microsoft. This supercomputer uses 10,000 NVIDIA graphic processors.
CHATGPT cost for the company is quite high. Each request costs about 4 cents of the United States. If ChatGPT queries reaches one tenth from the scale of Google search, you will need chips worth about $ 48.1 billion at the beginning and about 16 billion dollars a year to maintain work.
The development of AI’s own chips could include Openai among large technological players, such as Google and Amazon, who strive to control the design of chips key for their business.
Nevertheless, the creation of your own chip will require significant investments and does not guarantee success. The acquisition of a chip manufacturing company can speed up the process of creating your own chip for Openai.
Demand for specialized AI chips increased after the ChatGPT launch last year. NVIDIA is one of the few manufacturers that produces effective AI chips and dominates the market.