旧金山，9月30日：Synopsys是一家专注于开发用于芯片设计的软件的公司。该公司周三宣布，已与OpenAI达成合作协议，双方将共同开发一款用于芯片设计的人工智能模型，并据此分享收益。
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 30 : Synopsys, a maker of software used in designing computing chips, said on Wednesday that it has struck a deal to share revenue with OpenAI as the two develop an AI model for the chip business.
这款人工智能模型被命名为“GPT-Synopsys”。该模型将经过专门训练，能够处理芯片设计相关任务——这些任务从用类似代码的语言描述芯片电路开始，最终涉及到如何在一片小小的硅片上布局数十亿个晶体管。
GPT-Synopsys, as the model will be called, will be specifically trained and tuned to take on chip design tasks, which start with a description of the chip's circuits in a code-like language and span to determining how to lay out billions of transistors on a small square of silicon.
OpenAI的联合创始人Greg Brockman在宣布这一合作的视频中表示：“OpenAI的模型将学会使用Synopsys的软件工具，帮助工程师解决设计过程中遇到的各种权衡与优化问题，从而大幅缩短设计周期（节省数周甚至数月的时间），并推动更多芯片的量产。”
OpenAI's model will learn how to use Synopsys software tools to help engineers work through the various trade-offs and optimizations that happen during the design process "to be able to shave off weeks, months from the design process and to bring more chips to the world," OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman said in a video announcing the news.
Synopsys在投资者峰会上公布了这一合作计划。该公司首席执行官Sassine Ghazi还表示，公司预计2027财年的收入将增长15%，这一预测高于分析师们预估的11.19%（数据来源：LSEG）。在宣布这一合作计划后，Synopsys的股价上涨了7%。
Synopsys announced the deal at an investor summit where Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi also said the company now expects 15 per cent revenue growth for its fiscal 2027, which was above analyst estimates of 11.19 per cent growth, according to LSEG data. Shares rose as much as 7 per cent after the partnership and forecast announcement.
Ghazi在接受路透社采访时指出，OpenAI需要向Synopsys支付使用其软件工具的订阅费用；当Synopsys的客户使用该模型时，Synopsys与OpenAI将根据该模型在芯片设计方面的实际效果来分配收益。
Ghazi told Reuters in an interview that OpenAI will pay Synopsys a training subscription fee for learning to use Synopsys tools. When Synopsys customers use the product, Synopsys and OpenAI will share revenue based on how well the model improves the design of a chip.
Ghazi表示：“我们制定了合理的协议条款，确保这一合作不会损害我们的业务利益。相反，这反而会提升我们的竞争力，因为我们能够为客户提供更多价值。”他还强调：“GPT-Synopsys模型的设计结果仍会通过Synopsys的传统计算工具进行双重验证，以确保芯片能够正常工作。这种‘安全机制’是必要的，因为我们需要以最高精度来验证模型的准确性。”
"We structured the agreement in a way that it will not be cannibalizing our business," Ghazi said. "It will be an upside to our business given we're delivering more value to the customer." Ghazi said that the GPT-Synopsys model's work will still be double-checked by Synopsys tools that use traditional computing techniques to verify whether a chip will work. "The model needs these guardrails in order to check the physics," Ghazi said. "The need for validating with the highest level of fidelity, what we call sign-off or ground truth, is essential."