OpenAI and Broadcom show their first custom chip to run AI more cheaply

OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled OpenAI's first custom chip on June 24, called Jalapeño. <cite index="2-1">The chip is built to run OpenAI's products, such as serving its AI models to users in ChatGPT.</cite> <cite index="5-4">Broadcom's chief executive said it is showing cost savings of roughly 50% compared with typical AI graphics chips.</cite> <cite index="8-3">OpenAI plans to start using the chips to handle customer queries later this year.</cite>

Anthropic released a tool called Claude Tag on June 23 that puts its Claude AI inside the workplace chat app Slack as a shared team member. <cite index="45-1">The tool builds memory for each channel and performs tasks on its own.</cite> <cite index="39-5">It is available in a test version for customers with Claude Enterprise and Claude Team plans.</cite>

<cite index="20-4">Samsung Electronics agreed to give OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex tools to all its staff in Korea and to its device division worldwide.</cite> <cite index="20-5">OpenAI called it one of its largest business deployments to date.</cite> <cite index="28-4,28-5">In March 2023, Samsung engineers leaked sensitive source code through ChatGPT, and the company responded with a ban on generative AI tools.</cite>

<cite index="31-1">Agility Robotics plans to join the stock market through a merger with a listed shell company, Churchill Capital Corp XI, in a deal that values it at about $2.5 billion.</cite> <cite index="32-5">The deal is expected to generate over $600 million.</cite> <cite index="31-3">Agility is best known for Digit, a two-legged robot used across nine customer sites, including with Schaeffler, GXO, and Toyota.</cite>

<cite index="57-3">The cybersecurity agencies of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand warned that frontier AI models are set within months to reshape attacks across the globe.</cite> <cite index="57-6">The agencies wrote that the timeline is not years, it is months.</cite> <cite index="52-2">They urged executives to understand security as a business risk.</cite>