{"id":33261,"date":"2025-11-13T13:03:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=33261"},"modified":"2025-11-13T13:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:03:49","slug":"microsofts-plan-to-fix-its-chip-problem-is-partly-to-let-openai-do-the-heavy-lifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=33261","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s plan to fix its chip problem is, partly, to let OpenAI do the heavy lifting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft is taking a page from OpenAI\u2019s playbook, literally. Bloomberg first reported that the tech giant plans to leverage its partner\u2019s custom chip development to bolster its own struggling semiconductor efforts, a move that looks increasingly pragmatic given Microsoft\u2019s lackluster performance compared to rivals like Google and Amazon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The arrangement is straightforward: OpenAI is designing AI chips with Broadcom, and Microsoft gets full access to the innovations. \u201cAs they innovate even at the system level, we get access to all of it,\u201d CEO Satya Nadella explained on a newly released interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel, describing plans to adopt OpenAI\u2019s designs and then extend them for Microsoft\u2019s own purposes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under a revised partnership agreement, Microsoft secured intellectual property rights to OpenAI\u2019s chip designs while maintaining access to the company\u2019s AI models through 2032. The only carve-out? OpenAI\u2019s consumer hardware, which the ChatGPT maker presumably wants to develop and sell independently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The collaboration underscores a broader reality in tech: building cutting-edge AI chips is brutally difficult and expensive. Rather than continuing to struggle alone, Microsoft is betting that OpenAI\u2019s expertise \u2014 plus a smartly structured contract \u2014 can accelerate its own ambitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is taking a page from OpenAI\u2019s playbook, literally. Bloomberg first reported that the tech giant plans to leverage its partner\u2019s custom chip development to bolster its own struggling semiconductor efforts, a move that looks increasingly pragmatic given Microsoft\u2019s lackluster performance compared to rivals like Google and Amazon. The arrangement is straightforward: OpenAI is designing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[1942,2076,5250,14617,2526,1430,7204,1436,1651],"class_list":{"0":"post-33261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-chip","9":"tag-fix","10":"tag-heavy","11":"tag-lifting","12":"tag-microsofts","13":"tag-openai","14":"tag-partly","15":"tag-plan","16":"tag-problem"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}