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OpenAI built its first AI chip, named Jalapeño

2026.06.25
Hey, it's the Carat team. 😊 OpenAI just made its own chip to kick things off. Then: Claude moving into Slack, a rough 3D sketch turning into real anime, and a Gemini that clicks around your screen like a person.

🔥 OpenAI built its first AI chip, named Jalapeño

ⓒ OpenAI
ⓒ OpenAI
OpenAI just unveiled its first AI chip, Jalapeño. It runs the inference behind ChatGPT, Codex, and the API, and OpenAI designed it in-house with Broadcom.
A dedicated chip like this can cut the cost of running AI by nearly half per token. Broadcom says it holds its own against Nvidia's latest chips, too.
Engineering samples already went to Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. Prototypes start late this year, with full production rolling out from 2027.

📌 Three things worth knowing today

1️⃣ A new AI coworker just moved into Slack

ⓒ Anthropic
ⓒ Anthropic
Anthropic launched Claude Tag, an AI agent that lives inside Slack. Mention Claude in a thread and it breaks a complex task into smaller steps, then works through your connected tools to finish it.
It acts less like a personal assistant and more like a teammate working with everyone in the channel. Team and Enterprise plans get it first, and the old Claude Slack app switches over to this on August 3.

2️⃣ A rough 3D sketch turned into real anime

ⓒ @craftcapitallab
An animator dropped a rough 3D animatic into Seedance and had it render the whole thing as finished anime. The character's motion and camera angles carried straight over from the original 3D.
Normally you'd keyframe every shot by hand. Here you just block out the movement in 3D and let AI fill in the rest. @craftcapitallab made it, and it pulled in over 3,000 likes from creators.
You can use Seedance on Carat too. 👉 Make it on Carat

3️⃣ Gemini now uses a computer like a person

ⓒ Google
ⓒ Google
Google added computer use to Gemini 3.5 Flash. It looks at your screen, clicks buttons, types text, and works through multi-step tasks across your browser and apps, the way a person would.
It scored 78.4 on OSWorld, the test for computer control. That's right there with GPT-5.5 and Claude Sonnet 4.6, even though Flash is the fast, lightweight model. Handy for the repetitive desk work and software testing nobody enjoys.

🧪 Prompt of the day

Turn your photo into a Japanese summer editorial

ju0__ju0 shared this prompt on Threads. Drop in one portrait and it builds a Japanese summer fashion editorial, two expressions of the same person stacked top and bottom.
ⓒ @ju0__ju0
ⓒ @ju0__ju0
Here's what we made with the same prompt on Carat.
Generated with ChatGPT Image 2 Medium on Carat
Generated with ChatGPT Image 2 Medium on Carat
Transform my photo with ChatGPT Image 2 Medium. Prompt:
🌿 The Summer Was You, After All (Dual Summer Editorial Edition)
INPUT: Portrait {uploaded subject} / Outfit {keep current outfit / floral dress / mint dress / white dress / free input} / Props optional {straw hat / small pearl earrings / ribbon / none} / Aspect ratio {3:4 recommended / 4:5 / 9:16}
🎯 Goal: A midsummer editorial built from the uploaded subject, like a Japanese fashion magazine cover and inside spread combined. Two moments of the same person sit stacked top and bottom in one frame. The moment you look, you almost catch the smell of summer, the warmth of the sun, and the breeze slipping between the trees.
🖼️ Layout: Split the frame into two photos, top and bottom. The same person in both, but with different expressions and moods. The top scene holds joy and freshness, the bottom holds the lingering ache and flutter of summer. Compose it all as refined and high-end as a real fashion editorial.
☀️ Top cut: The subject caught glancing back at the camera. Body turned slightly forward, head turning slowly toward the lens. A bright smile with teeth showing, not forced, more like a smile that spread on its own under the sunlight. The ends of the hair drift lightly in the summer wind.
🌿 Bottom cut: The subject in the same spot, head turned a little more toward the camera. Not smiling. Lips parted just barely and naturally, like a moment paused mid-sentence. The eyes carry the feeling, "I think I'll remember this moment for a long time." A few strands of hair brush across the face.
☀️ Light: Natural light filtering through green trees, warm sun settling on one side of the face, the neck, shoulders, and arms, leaf shadows draping softly over the skin, a hair light glinting along the edges, skin glowing softly as if soaked in sunlight, natural light that carries the temperature of summer air.
🌿 Background: Large emerald green bokeh, fully melted background focus, light blooming between the leaves, shallow depth of field, soft film grain, clean and translucent air.
🎞️ Color & style: Japanese summer fashion editorial, luxury magazine layout, dual-frame composition, creamy green bokeh, dappled sunlight, sun-kissed skin, soft breeze, cinematic natural light, Kodak Portra 400, 85mm F1.4, ultra shallow depth of field, fresh green palette, airy atmosphere, premium fashion photography
Up top, me smiling like sunlight; down below, me lost in the afterglow of summer. Two expressions completing one season on a single page, a high-end fashion spread. Place quiet editorial typography in the margin, like a Japanese high-end fashion magazine.
Title: The Summer We Loved, set in a thin, elegant serif from the Didot/Canela family, large enough but never overdone, placed about 8 to 10 percent in from the lower left. A small caption sits under the title and reads: A little sunlight, a little breeze, and you. Keep it at about 20 percent of the title size, in a very thin, delicate serif. Use an ivory tone rather than pure white, at 70 to 80 percent opacity so it melts in naturally. The type does not describe the photo; it reads like a quiet record of an old summer memory, with enough negative space to let a high-end editorial breathe.

Make yours on Carat right now. 👉 Make it on Carat
That's the spread today, from a chip to anime to a tidy little summer editorial. If one of these caught your eye, go make something with it on Carat. See you tomorrow with more. 🙂

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