OpenAI Built Its Own Chip Team After Asking Industry to Move Faster

OpenAI has assembled an in-house semiconductor unit led by Richard Ho, who helped create Google's first TPU chips. The team is now working on deploying its first chips while competing with Nvidia.

• Richard Ho, creator of Google's first TPUs, leads OpenAI's chip unit
• The team was built from scratch and is preparing to deploy first chips
• OpenAI competes with Nvidia while maintaining a partnership
• Ho also weighs in on AI doomerism and risk