Richard Ho
Richard Ho is the Head of Hardware at OpenAI, where he leads the company's custom AI chip development efforts in collaboration with Broadcom and TSMC. He is a former senior director of engineering at Google, where he was one of the early engineers and leaders of the Cloud Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) program across multiple generations. Prior to OpenAI, he also worked at D. E. Shaw Research on the Anton molecular dynamics supercomputer, photonic computing company Lightmatter, and co-founded chip-verification tool company 0-In Design Automation. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
“OpenAI says it has begun testing 'Jalapeeno,' the first in a family of homegrown chips, with plans to start using the chips to handle customer queries later this year.”
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