OpenAI’s Jalapeño lands as AI infrastructure spending surges
Thursday, June 25, 2026 · 11 min
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, a custom LLM inference chip, while Groq, Microsoft, Blackstone and CoreWeave pushed fresh capital and capacity into AI infrastructure. The center of gravity is shifting from model demos to inference cost, power, and buildout scale.
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OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, a custom LLM inference chip, while Groq, Microsoft, Blackstone and CoreWeave pushed fresh capital and capacity into AI infrastructure. The center of gravity is shifting from model demos to inference cost, power, and buildout scale.
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