Microsoft will leverage OpenAI’s custom chip development to enhance its semiconductor efforts, according to a report by Bloomberg.
OpenAI is designing AI chips with Broadcom, and Microsoft will have full access to these innovations. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated on a podcast with Dwarkesh Patel that Microsoft will adopt and extend OpenAI’s designs for its own purposes, noting, “As they innovate even at the system level, we get access to all of it.”
Under a revised partnership agreement, Microsoft secured intellectual property rights to OpenAI’s chip designs. The agreement also provides Microsoft with continued access to OpenAI’s AI models through 2032. The only exclusion from this agreement involves OpenAI’s consumer hardware.
Microsoft is utilizing OpenAI’s expertise and the structured contract to accelerate its ambitions in building AI chips.
