SYNOPSYS AND OPENAI TEAM UP ON GPT-SYNOPSYS, A FRONTIER MODEL THAT RUNS EDA TOOLS LIKE AN ENGINEER

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GPT-Synopsys is an OpenAI frontier model trained and tuned to operate Synopsys' EDA tools directly, covering PPA optimization, timing closure, and verification. Engineers hand it an objective, and agents run the tools, interpret the results, make changes, and loop until there's a verified outcome to review. It runs on OpenAI-hosted infrastructure and plugs into Synopsys.ai and the Autopilot agentic platform. OpenAI licenses Synopsys' tools to train the model, paying a training subscription fee, and the two companies then share revenue based on how well the model improves chip designs, an unusual structure that ties both to the results. Synopsys says customer design data stays protected and won't be used to train the frontier model, and the bundled service covers compute, the model, and EDA licenses.