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🤿Deep Dive: OpenAI says its new chip beats the competition on speed
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🤿Deep Dive: The new Mac mini
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🤿 DEEP DIVE
OpenAI's Jalapeño Chip Reportedly Outpaces Leading AI Hardware
Intelligence: OpenAI has spent months testing Jalapeño, its first custom inference chip, against leading AI hardware systems on a public benchmark. The results point to a new phase in how the company plans to run its own models.
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Jalapeño was designed with AI models used throughout its own development, with the team going from initial design to tapeout in 9 months.
The chip runs GPT-OSS 120B, DeepSeek R1, and Kimi K2.5 1T, models built both inside and outside OpenAI.
On Kimi K2.5, the largest model tested, Jalapeño delivered roughly 1.5 times higher performance per watt and 3.4 times lower end-to-end latency than the comparison system.
Engineers used Codex with GPT-Astra to bring three additional open-weight models to high performance within 2 months, work that was not part of Jalapeño's original plan.
For select GPT-OSS blocks, AI-generated code ran 1.5 to 1.8 times faster than versions written by human experts.
OpenAI plans to begin deploying Jalapeño inside its own infrastructure by the end of the year, with 2 more chip generations already in development.
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M6 and M5 Pro Reshape the Mac Mini Lineup
Intelligence: Apple has refreshed the Mac mini with the new M6 chip and the more powerful M5 Pro option, both built around AI-focused hardware changes. The updated lineup targets everything from everyday tasks to demanding professional workflows.
The M6 model includes a 12-core CPU and 12-core GPU, each gaining two cores over the previous generation, along with Neural Accelerators built into every GPU core for the first time on Mac mini.
Standard unified memory rises to 16GB, configurable up to 32GB, with memory bandwidth reaching up to 170GB per second.
The M5 Pro model supports up to an 18-core CPU, 20-core GPU, and 64GB of unified memory with 307GB per second of bandwidth.
Both models add Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and 2.5Gb Ethernet, with a 10Gb option available.
Thunderbolt 5 on the M5 Pro model allows multiple Mac mini units to be clustered together to run large AI models entirely on device.
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