Tag: AMD

Toronto startup Taalas joins AMD to hard-code models in chips

AMD's Taalas deal adds inference chips whose final layers are locked to a single model.

AMD’s open 16B MoE model tops fully open rivals on benchmarks

AMD's fully open mixture-of-experts model leads open rivals while activating just 2.8B parameters.

AMD opens Instella MoE model trained on its Instinct GPUs

AMD ships Instella-MoE-16B-A3B, an open mixture-of-experts model trained on Instinct GPUs with 2.8B active parameters.

AMD launches Helios rack system as credible Nvidia rival

AMD unveiled its first rack-scale AI system, Helios, to challenge Nvidia's data center dominance with backing from OpenAI,…

AMD bets five billion on Anthropic with massive GPU deployment deal

AMD will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic and supply 2 gigawatts of Instinct MI450 GPUs in…

AMD debuts 256-core Zen 6 Venice chip and MI400 accelerator at AI event

AMD launched its EPYC Venice processor on TSMC 2nm and the Instinct MI400 accelerator at Advancing AI 2026,…

Microsoft taps AMD EPYC and Helios AI for three new Azure VM families

Microsoft expanded its Azure AI infrastructure with AMD-powered virtual machines for inference, data processing, and chip design.