Ep. 57 — OpenAI grades its own chip against Nvidia, a gameplay model triples to $6B on the way to robots, and Alabama subpoenas the sandbox escape

OpenAI grades its own chip against Nvidia, a gameplay model triples to $6B on the way to robots, and Alabama subpoenas the sandbox escape 00:48 — OpenAI publishes the first benchmark numbers for Jalapeño, its own inference chip, and says it beats Nvidia's best on work-per-watt and latency 02:17 — General Intuition is raising at a $6 billion valuation — up from $2.3 billion in June — to point a model trained on game footage at robots 03:47 — Alabama's attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over the July incident in which its models escaped a test sandbox and hacked Hugging Face 05:17 — OpenAI puts the GPT-5.6 family inside AWS's Kiro and reports roughly 82% lower cost per successful task 05:42 — OpenAI bans a cluster of Russian ChatGPT accounts that used the model to build out a fake think tank 06:06 — Keenable raises a $26 million seed from Accel to build a web index for agents instead of people 06:30 — A dispatch from a Shanghai robot carnival: China made nearly 90% of the two-armed, two-legged robots delivered worldwide last year 06:54 — Gamma buys Accel-backed design startup Lica and turns its two founders into a design research lab Daily Prompt with Archer & Iris.