eastunder
1 week ago
AMD Unveils Vision for an Open AI Ecosystem, Detailing New Silicon, Software and Systems at Advancing AI 2025
By Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | June 12, 2025, 2:30 PM
https://finviz.com/news/79655/amd-unveils-vision-for-an-open-ai-ecosystem-detailing-new-silicon-software-and-systems-at-advancing-ai-2025
Advanced Micro Devices Inc
— Only AMD powers the full spectrum of AI, bringing together leadership GPUs, CPUs, networking and open software to deliver unmatched flexibility and performance —
— Meta, OpenAI, xAI, Oracle, Microsoft, Cohere, HUMAIN, Red Hat, Astera Labs and Marvell discussed how they are partnering with AMD for AI solutions —
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) delivered its comprehensive, end-to-end integrated AI platform vision and introduced its open, scalable rack-scale AI infrastructure built on industry standards at its 2025 Advancing AI event.
AMD and its partners showcased:
How they are building the open AI ecosystem with the new AMD Instinct™ MI350 Series accelerators
The continued growth of the AMD ROCm™ ecosystem
The company’s powerful, new, open rack-scale designs and roadmap that bring leadership rack-scale AI performance beyond 2027
“AMD is driving AI innovation at an unprecedented pace, highlighted by the launch of our AMD Instinct MI350 series accelerators, advances in our next generation AMD ‘Helios’ rack-scale solutions, and growing momentum for our ROCm open software stack,” said Dr. Lisa Su, AMD chair and CEO. “We are entering the next phase of AI, driven by open standards, shared innovation and AMD’s expanding leadership across a broad ecosystem of hardware and software partners who are collaborating to define the future of AI.”
AMD Delivers Leadership Solutions to Accelerate an Open AI Ecosystem
AMD announced a broad portfolio of hardware, software and solutions to power the full spectrum of AI:
AMD unveiled the Instinct MI350 Series GPUs, setting a new benchmark for performance, efficiency and scalability in generative AI and high-performance computing. The MI350 Series, consisting of both Instinct MI350X and MI355X GPUs and platforms, delivers a 4x, generation-on-generation AI compute increasei and a 35x generational leap in inferencingii, paving the way for transformative AI solutions across industries. MI355X also delivers significant price-performance gains, generating up to 40% more tokens-per-dollar compared to competing solutionsiii. More details are available in this blog from Vamsi Boppana, AMD SVP, AI.
AMD demonstrated end-to-end, open-standards rack-scale AI infrastructure—already rolling out with AMD Instinct MI350 Series accelerators, 5th Gen AMD EPYC™ processors and AMD Pensando™ Pollara NICs in hyperscaler deployments such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and set for broad availability in 2H 2025.
AMD also previewed its next generation AI rack called “Helios.” It will be built on the next-generation AMD Instinct MI400 Series GPUs – which compared to the previous generation are expected to deliver up to 10x more performance running inference on Mixture of Experts modelsiv, the “Zen 6”-based AMD EPYC “Venice” CPUs and AMD Pensando “Vulcano” NICs. More details are available in this blog post.
The latest version of the AMD open-source AI software stack, ROCm 7, is engineered to meet the growing demands of generative AI and high-performance computing workloads—while dramatically improving developer experience across the board. ROCm 7 features improved support for industry-standard frameworks, expanded hardware compatibility and new development tools, drivers, APIs and libraries to accelerate AI development and deployment. More details are available in this blog post from Anush Elangovan, AMD CVP of AI Software Development.
The Instinct MI350 Series exceeded AMD’s five-year goal to improve the energy efficiency of AI training and high-performance computing nodes by 30x, ultimately delivering a 38x improvementv. AMD also unveiled a new 2030 goal to deliver a 20x increase in rack-scale energy efficiency from a 2024 base yearvi, enabling a typical AI model that today requires more than 275 racks to be trained in fewer than one fully utilized rack by 2030, using 95% less electricityvii. More details are available in this blog post from Sam Naffziger, AMD SVP and Corporate Fellow.
AMD also announced the broad availability of the AMD Developer Cloud for the global developer and open-source communities. Purpose-built for rapid, high-performance AI development, users will have access to a fully managed cloud environment with the tools and flexibility to get started with AI projects – and grow without limits. With ROCm 7 and the AMD Developer Cloud, AMD is lowering barriers and expanding access to next-gen compute. Strategic collaborations with leaders like Hugging Face, OpenAI and Grok are proving the power of co-developed, open solutions.
Broad Partner Ecosystem Showcases AI Progress Powered by AMD
Today, seven of the 10 largest model builders and Al companies are running production workloads on Instinct accelerators. Among those companies are Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft and xAI, who joined AMD and other partners at Advancing AI, to discuss how they are working with AMD for AI solutions to train today’s leading AI models, power inference at scale and accelerate AI exploration and development:
Meta detailed how Instinct MI300X is broadly deployed for Llama 3 and Llama 4 inference. Meta shared excitement for MI350 and its compute power, performance-per-TCO and next-generation memory. Meta continues to collaborate closely with AMD on AI roadmaps, including plans for the Instinct MI400 Series platform.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discussed the importance of holistically optimized hardware, software and algorithms and OpenAI’s close partnership with AMD on AI infrastructure, with research and GPT models on Azure in production on MI300X, as well as deep design engagements on MI400 Series platforms.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is among the first industry leaders to adopt the AMD open rack-scale AI infrastructure with AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs. OCI leverages AMD CPUs and GPUs to deliver balanced, scalable performance for AI clusters, and announced it will offer zettascale AI clusters accelerated by the latest AMD Instinct processors with up to 131,072 MI355X GPUs to enable customers to build, train and inference AI at scale.
HUMAIN discussed its landmark agreement with AMD to build open, scalable, resilient and cost-efficient AI infrastructure leveraging the full spectrum of computing platforms only AMD can provide.
Microsoft announced Instinct MI300X is now powering both proprietary and open-source models in production on Azure.
Cohere shared that its high-performance, scalable Command models are deployed on Instinct MI300X, powering enterprise-grade LLM inference with high throughput, efficiency and data privacy.
Red Hat described how its expanded collaboration with AMD enables production-ready AI environments, with AMD Instinct GPUs on Red Hat OpenShift AI delivering powerful, efficient AI processing across hybrid cloud environments.
Astera Labs highlighted how the open UALink ecosystem accelerates innovation and delivers greater value to customers and shared plans to offer a comprehensive portfolio of UALink products to support next-generation AI infrastructure.
Marvell joined AMD to highlight its collaboration as part of the UALink Consortium developing an open interconnect, bringing the ultimate flexibility for AI infrastructure.
eastunder
1 month ago
AMD and HUMAIN Form Strategic, $10B Collaboration to Advance Global AI
12:08:00 PM ET, 05/13/2025 - GlobeNewswire
SANTA CLARA, Calif. and RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and HUMAIN, Saudi Arabia’s new AI enterprise, today announced a landmark agreement to build the world’s most open, scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient AI infrastructure, that will power the future of global intelligence through a network of AMD-based AI computing centers stretching from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United States.
As part of the agreement, the parties will invest up to $10B to deploy 500 megawatts of AI compute capacity over the next five years. The AI superstructure built by AMD and HUMAIN will be open by design, accessible at scale, and optimized to power AI workloads across enterprise, start-up and sovereign markets. HUMAIN will oversee end-to-end delivery, including hyperscale data center, sustainable power systems, and global fiber interconnects, and AMD will provide the full spectrum of the AMD AI compute portfolio and the AMD ROCm™ open software ecosystem.
“At AMD, we have a bold vision to enable the future of AI everywhere - bringing open, high-performance computing to every developer, AI start-up and enterprise around the world,” said Dr. Lisa Su, Chair and CEO, AMD. “Our investment with HUMAIN is a significant milestone in advancing global AI infrastructure. Together, we are building a globally significant AI platform that delivers performance, openness and reach at unprecedented levels.”
“This is not just another infrastructure play - it’s an open invitation to the world’s innovators,” said Tareq Amin, CEO of HUMAIN. “We are democratizing AI at the compute level, ensuring that access to advanced AI is limited only by imagination, not by infrastructure.”
With initial deployments already underway across key global regions, the collaboration is on track to activate multi-exaflop capacity by early 2026, supported by next-gen AI silicon, modular data center zones, and a developer-enablement focused software platform stack built around open standards and interoperability.
Full-Spectrum AI at Scale
The collaboration will deliver a market-defining value proposition by combining the Kingdom’s energy resources, AI-ready workforce and forward-looking national AI policies with the AMD full-spectrum AI stack including:
AMD Instinct™ GPUs, with industry-leading memory and inference performance.
AMD EPYC™ CPUs, offering world-class compute density and energy efficiency.
AMD Pensando™ DPUs, enabling scalable, secure, and programmable networking.
AMD Ryzen™ AI, bringing on-device AI compute to the edge.
AMD ROCm open software ecosystem with built-in support for all AI frameworks (PyTorch, SGLang, etc.)
About AMD
For more than 50 years AMD has driven innovation in high-performance computing, graphics and visualization technologies. AMD employees are focused on building leadership high-performance and adaptive products that push the boundaries of what is possible. Billions of people, leading Fortune 500 businesses and cutting-edge scientific research institutions around the world rely on AMD technology daily to improve how they live, work and play. For more information about how AMD is enabling today and inspiring tomorrow, visit the AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) website, blog, LinkedIn and X pages.
About Humain
HUMAIN, a PIF company, is a global artificial intelligence company delivering full-stack AI capabilities across four core areas - next-generation data centers, hyper-performance infrastructure & cloud platforms, advanced AI Models, including the world’s most advanced Arabic multimodal LLMs, and transformative AI Solutions that combine deep sector insight with real-world execution. HUMAIN’s end-to-end model serves both public and private sector organisations, unlocking exponential value across all industries, driving transformation and strengthening capabilities through human-AI synergies. With a growing portfolio of sector-specific AI products and a core mission to drive IP leadership and talent supremacy world-wide, HUMAIN is engineered for global competitiveness and national distinction. www.humain.ai
eastunder
1 month ago
US to Boost Saudi AI Chip Access Even as China Issues Linger
Mackenzie Hawkins, Annmarie Hordern and Matthew Martin
Tue, May 13, 2025 at 4:38 AM MDT 4 min read
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-boost-saudi-ai-chip-103847726.html?
(Bloomberg) -- The Trump administration is preparing to announce a deal granting Saudi Arabia more access to advanced semiconductors, paving the way for increased data center capacity in the Gulf nation despite concerns from some US officials about its ties to China, according to people familiar with the matter.
The agreement would boost Saudi Arabia’s ability to buy chips from the likes of Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., which are considered the gold standard for training and running artificial intelligence models, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing confidential conversations. President Donald Trump is in Riyadh Tuesday, kicking off a broader Middle East trip, and he could announce the deal as soon as this week.
But while the two governments have reached an early-stage accord, they are still hashing out a number of key details, the people said. Front and center are US concerns that China could access chips sent to Saudi Arabia, either through the diversion of physical shipments or by tapping the capabilities of those chips via the cloud. One provision under discussion, the people said, would see the US government control access to data centers that use American chips. It’s not clear under what conditions, or to whom, access would be granted.
Representatives for the Saudi Arabian government and the White House didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
The deal is one of two major AI chip accords that Trump officials are negotiating as they prepare to rewrite US rules governing the export of advanced chips worldwide. Trump may announce the second agreement with the United Arab Emirates later in his trip, Bloomberg has reported.
Taken together, the deals indicate that Trump is much more willing than President Joe Biden to see advanced American technology shipped to the Gulf — a region where he also has major business interests and where sovereign wealth funds have pledged substantial investments in the US.
AMD shares erased losses in premarket trading and were up 0.7% at 6:35 a.m. New York time. Nvidia shares also erased declines and were up about 0.1%.
“We must take aggressive steps to prevent advanced semiconductors from being illegally diverted into China,” White House AI Adviser David Sacks wrote last week in a post on the social-media platform X. “But that goal should not preclude legitimate sales to the rest of the world as long as partners comply with reasonable security conditions.”
Washington has required companies to seek a license for AI chip sales to the UAE, Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries since 2023, in large part because of concerns the hardware could wind up in Beijing’s hands. Biden officials spent much of last year debating what conditions to apply to those shipments, with the goal of ensuring that American technology is protected from China — while not being so restrictive that third countries turn away from US hardware altogether.
As part of those conversations, Saudi Arabian officials began negotiating a bilateral accord with Biden’s team, according to people familiar with the matter. But, like the UAE, they abandoned those conversations after Trump won the US presidential election.
Now, Trump has his own version of that accord. In addition to provisions around facility access, the two sides have also discussed the idea of setting up so-called data embassies, under which data centers could be exempt from local data-protection regulations and could instead be subject to the laws of a foreign state, according to people familiar with the matter.
The goal of such a provision would be to help Saudi Arabia foster an “attractive environment for foreign governments and private sector entities to develop and adopt such technologies for peaceful purposes and uses,” according to a draft law spelling out the data embassies arrangement. The law, which does not mention the US deal, also highlights Saudi Arabia’s geographic position and ability to connect three continents.
Some European countries, such as Estonia, have relied on similar digital embassies to operate government IT facilities in other countries, designed to shield against security risks. The idea is also gaining some traction across the Gulf region. G42, the Abu Dhabi AI juggernaut, is exploring ways to set up digital embassies with government partnerships and for backing up critical infrastructure.
“We’re thinking about how to implement this, but as you can imagine, this is fairly complex,” Kiril Evtimov, the chief executive officer of Core42, the company’s cloud unit, said in an April interview. G42’s data center business, Khazna, has also said it plans to expand aggressively in Saudi Arabia.
--With assistance from Mark Bergen.
(Updates with shares in seventh paragraph)
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