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OpenAI designing its own AI chip

Expected in 2026

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Eddie Yoon
September 04, 2025 • Read time: 6 minutes

👋 Good morning/evening (wherever you are). It’s Thursday.

OpenAI is reportedly working with Broadcom to design a custom AI chip, with first shipments expected in 2026 for internal use and to compete with Nvidia, Financial Times reports.

The news comes as OpenAI lets employees sell $10.3B in stock at a $500B valuation.

OK let’s keep going ↓

🔥 Creative pulse

We need to take a moment to understand how serious this is…we’re watching AI escape the uncanny valley in real time.

Here’s 3 things that will disappear next:

  • Physical presence: No floaty characters, no uncanny motion

  • Crowds: No more blurred extras or copy paste NPCs

  • Voices & Lip Sync: "AI voices" gone for good

I also share 3 bold predictions and where AI video is going beyond today’s 8-second clips.

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💡 Here’s what you should know

Midjourney just teased their first Style Explorer:

💰 The numbers

  • Atlassian acquired The Browser Company for $610M to integrate its AI-powered “Dia” browser.

  • Sierra raised $350M at a $10B valuation to accelerate development of its enterprise AI agents.

  • TurbineOne won a $98.9M U.S. Army contract to deploy battlefield AI for real-time threat detection.

  • Augment Technologies raised $85M Series A to expand its AI teammate for logistics.

  • Sola Security raised $35M Series A to scale its AI-powered cybersecurity assistant platform.

  • Revalia Bio secured $14.5M seed funding to use human organs in AI-driven predictive drug trials.

  • RushOwl raised $10M Series A to expand its AI-based ride-sharing platform in Singapore.

  • Reveal HealthTech raised $7.2M Series A to provide AI-powered healthcare technology services.

  • Geniez AI secured $6M seed to link LLMs and AI agents with real-time mainframe data.

  • Alpic raised $6M pre-seed to launch the first Model Context Protocol (MCP)-native cloud platform.

🧠 Thought starters

This is a perfect snapshot of how quickly “sci-fi” is turning into infrastructure:

  1. Robotics is crossing into daily life. More proof that general-purpose robots are being actively trained to handle unstructured, boring tasks. Think about the economic implications once labor for basic work becomes automated.

What happens when household robots are as customizable as phones?

When will we start seeing custom Figure bots, add-ons, and even jailbreaks?

  1. Creative tools are collapsing latency. When rendering time disappears, creativity compounds and video generation becomes a conversation instead of a production cycle.

What new art emerges when iteration is instantaneous?

At what point does creation become cognition?

😂 Meme of the day

Thanks for reading,

Eddie

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