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While it sounds hard to believe, it is apparently consistent across multiple industry sources familiar with the matter. OpenAI has grown increasingly dissatisfied with the performance of certain NVIDIA artificial intelligence chips used for inference, the stage where models generate responses. This unease has pushed the San Francisco–based AI leader to quietly explore alternative hardware options since 2025, potentially reshaping its long-term computing roadmap and impacting its relationship with NVIDIA.