Christophe Mims / Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI’s Broadcom deal shows how the AI startup is diversifying its chip suppliers, including Nvidia chips for training and Broadcom chips for inference— The maker of ChatGPT and Sora wants to control its destiny, which means controlling the hardware that runs its software
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