By Andrew Nusca
Publication Date: 2025-11-13 10:50:00
Good morning. Lean and mean today, like the luggage capacity of Russ Hanneman’s favorite McLaren.
Today’s tech news below. —Andrew Nusca
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Microsoft will use OpenAI custom chip effort to inform its own
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OpenAI announced last month that it would partner with Broadcom to build its own custom AI chips.
So it’s fair to ask: Given its special financial relationship with OpenAI, what does Microsoft stand to gain?
A lot, according to Satya Nadella. The Microsoft CEO said in a recent podcast episode that the tech giant plans to use learnings from that experience to build its own custom silicon.
“As they innovate even at the system level, we get access to all of it,” Nadella said. “We first want to instantiate what they build for them, but then we’ll extend it.”
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