OpenAI x Broadcom — The OpenAI Podcast Ep. 8

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

October 13, 2025

Duration

28m

Channel

OpenAI

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

OpenAI and Broadcom are teaming up to design our own chips—bringing lessons from building frontier models straight into the hardware. In partnership with Broadcom and alongside our other partners, we’re creating the next generation of AI infrastructure to meet the world’s growing demand. In this episode, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Greg Brockman sit down with Broadcom’s Hock Tan and Charlie Kawwas to announce a new partnership focused on custom AI chips and systems that could redefine what’s possible in computing. Chapters 00:00 Announcing the partnership 03:06 The scale of AI infrastructure 06:03 Collaboration and innovation in chip design 08:49 Historical context and future vision 12:10 Role of compute in AI development 15:01 Optimizing for specific workloads 18:02 Journey towards AGI 21:00 Future of AI and compute capacity 23:50 Wrap-up and future projects

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Andrew Mayne

  host

• Sam Altman

  guest

• Hock Tan

  guest

• Greg Brockman

  guest

• Charlie Kawwas

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🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of OpenAI, featuring Andrew Mayne and Sam Altman, OpenAI x Broadcom — The OpenAI Podcast Ep. 8 explores openAI and Broadcom build custom chips for massive AI scaling OpenAI and Broadcom announce a partnership to co-design a custom chip and an integrated system (chip, racks, networking, and software) optimized specifically for OpenAI’s AI workloads.

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