Synopsys and OpenAI launch chip design model GPT-Synopsys
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At its 2026 Investor Day, Synopsys announced a partnership with OpenAI to launch the dedicated AI model GPT-Synopsys, in which OpenAI's frontier model directly operates Synopsys' EDA tools to complete chip design processes such as PPA optimization, timing closure, and verification. Under the arrangement between the two parties, OpenAI will be licensed to use Synopsys' EDA tools to develop this dedicated model and will pay Synopsys a training subscription fee for this purpose. Synopsys stated that it will not use customers' proprietary IC design data to train this frontier model, and that encrypted data can be managed through configurable retention, audit, and permission controls. The design services jointly offered by the two parties will bundle compute, models, and EDA licenses, and will protect customer-specific design data.
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At its 2026 Investor Day in New York, Synopsys announced GPT-Synopsys, a specialized AI model built with OpenAI's frontier models that operates directly in Synopsys EDA tools for chip design and verification tasks including PPA optimization, timing closure, and verification. Running on OpenAI-hosted infrastructure and integrated with Synopsys.ai and the Synopsys Autopilot agentic AI platform, it will be trained and tuned specifically for chip design, with OpenAI licensing Synopsys' EDA tools and paying a training subscription fee, while the two companies share revenue based on how well the model improves chip design. Synopsys says proprietary IC design data will not be used to train the frontier model and will be protected through access controls, encryption, and runtime guardrails.
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