OpenAI chip program set to come online in the first half of 2027

OpenAI’s chip program is set to start coming online in the first half of 2027 and scale substantially in the following years, a company representative said. OpenAI views the program as a way to build more computing capacity as demand grows among consumers, developers and enterprise customers.

The representative said he thinks the chips could give OpenAI a “huge inference advantage” for the watts available. He said the company will also need more efficient models and chips, as well as much more infrastructure, and predicted that people may want to run 10, 20 or even 100 DOTS.