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Synopsys and OpenAI Sign Multi-Year Deal to Build GPT-Synopsys Chip Design AI Model
Read this in the Market Flux appSynopsys and OpenAI announced a strategic multi-year partnership on September 30, 2026, to jointly develop and commercialize GPT-Synopsys, a specialized AI model designed to accelerate semiconductor design. Under the agreement, OpenAI will license Synopsys' industry-leading electronic design automation tools to build the model, combining OpenAI's frontier AI capabilities with Synopsys' deep EDA expertise.
GPT-Synopsys will run on OpenAI-hosted infrastructure and will be deeply integrated with Synopsys.ai and the Synopsys Autopilot agentic AI platform. The model is designed to interoperate with customer agent harness systems, and early technology engagements are already underway with leading semiconductor customers. The joint offering will bundle compute, model access, and software licenses into a single service, with a shared revenue framework between the two companies.
The partnership includes enterprise-grade security and data protection commitments: customer design data will not be used to train the model, will be encrypted at rest and in transit, and will be subject to configurable retention, audit, and permission controls. The deal positions Synopsys and OpenAI as preferred partners in the push to use frontier AI to dramatically advance the pace of semiconductor innovation.
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