I'd be shocked if it was anything more than this.

changoplatanero 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Browsing openai's job postings in the past few months is enough to contirm that it's more than this. They are for sure making serious efforts at building ai for chip design.

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xnx 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Impossible to know. Could be fake/aspirational roles to impress investors with their grand vision.

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NitpickLawyer 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Jesus. This is tinfoil hat territory now. Why would they fake something like that? ANY company in this field would try to become free from nvda. Goog has done it already, amazon has their own thing, so it can be done. Not saying they'll 0shot this vertical, but ffs, they don't need to fake anything. They are making an effort, and it would be insane to think they aren't. Might work, might not work, but to even think that the effort is fake is going too far.

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luqtas 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

https://antoniocortes.com/en/2026/03/10/ghost-jobs-the-econo...

	▲	NitpickLawyer 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not saying this isn't a thing. I'm saying oAI doesn't need to fake trying to make a chip or hiring people to make AI better at chip making, or dogfooding or anything like this. It's obvious they're doing it. They'd have 0 reason to fake something like this "for the investors". Come on!

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reinitctxoffset 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It kinda depends on what your prior is. Some companies do a press release and I immediately pay attention or even take action.

Other companies? Fool me once Altman, let's see the thing at scale making money.

Near frontier AI is clearly relevant to some kinds of logic design, I'm learning some Hardcaml at the moment and yeah, AI is super helpful.

Can it leapfrog a company without hardware experience to near the front of the pack of companies with decades of hardware experience? Less obvious.

Unrelatedly, would OpenAI dramatically overstate something to manipulate the press and public and capital markets?

It's arguably their core competency .

AI is going to matter in logic design and synthesis. How much, how soon, and where are open questions.

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Planktonne 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They have a history of lying and making grandiose claims. It's unreasonable to extend them the benefit of the doubt again.

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signatoremo 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you have inside knowledge?