Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI and Synopsys form chip-design AI partnership
OpenAI and Synopsys signed a multi-year deal to build GPT-Synopsys, a specialised model for chip design and verification, with early customer testing already under way.
- OpenAI and Synopsys signed a multi-year strategic partnership to build a specialised AI model for chip design called GPT-Synopsys.
- Synopsys said the model would use its electronic design automation tools, and OpenAI would licence those tools for the project.
- The companies said the model would run on OpenAI’s infrastructure and that customer data would not be used for training and would be stored encrypted.
- They said early tests with semiconductor customers had already started and that they would market the product together and share revenue.
OpenAI and Synopsys said they had entered a multi-year strategic partnership to build GPT-Synopsys, a model for chip design. Synopsys said its electronic design automation tools would be part of the project, and OpenAI said it would licence those tools.
The companies said the model would be able to reason about chip design and verification and to operate Synopsys’ tools directly. Engineers would set the objectives and then review and approve the results.
They said the system would run on OpenAI’s infrastructure. According to both companies, customer data would not be used to train the model and would be kept encrypted.
The companies also said they had begun early tests with semiconductor customers. They said they would market the product together and split revenue.
Synopsys chief executive Sassine Ghazi said AI could speed up the design process. OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman said the deal was a route to better chips and better AI, and the article said OpenAI was already working with Broadcom on chips built for AI models.
Named in this story
People
- Sassine Ghazi
- Synopsys chief executive who said AI could speed up chip design
- Greg Brockman
- OpenAI co-founder who said the deal could help produce better chips and AI
Companies
- OpenAI
- signed the partnership and will provide the AI technology and infrastructure
- Synopsys
- signed the partnership and will provide the EDA tools
- Broadcom
- another chip partner OpenAI was already working with
Products and systems
- GPT-Synopsys
- the specialised model the companies said they would build
How the source tells it
The piece was largely straightforward reporting, but it leaned on the companies’ own upbeat claims about speed, competitiveness and shared commercial gains.
- boosterism the article repeated the companies’ forward-looking claims about faster design and better chips without independent support