AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic
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AMD is committing up to $5 billion in investment to Anthropic while supplying the AI company with its Instinct MI450 GPUs for expanded computing capacity. The partnership includes deployment of up to 2 gigawatts of AMD hardware, with the first gigawatt coming online in the first half of 2027. Anthropic gains significant computational resources to support its large language models, while AMD secures a major customer for its data center AI chips.
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AMD says it's going to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while helping to expand the AI company's computing power, according to an announcement on Wednesday. As part of the new partnership, Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD's Instinct MI450 AI GPUs using the chipmaker's new Helios rack-scale system, as reported […]
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