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Mission: lower inference cost

The mission was to lower inference and compute costs—making intelligence faster and cheaper for users.

Richard Ho·Published Sep 17, 2026

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Inside OpenAI’s First Chip

Original excerpt

They wanted to look really hard at what we could do to lower the cost of inference and lower the cost of compute.

Context

I think this project really kicked off when Sam and Greg decided that infrastructure was going to be a key differentiator and one of the key drivers of AI and intelligence to users.

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