AMD and Anthropic reach $5 billion AI infrastructure deal
AMD has announced a $5 billion investment in Anthropic to expand AI computing power, including the deployment of AMD's Instinct MI450 GPUs. The partnership also includes a multi-year engineering collaboration to integrate Anthropic's Claude AI into AMD's software development processes.
Why it matters
This deal represents a significant strategic move in the AI infrastructure race, positioning AMD as a major competitor to Nvidia in the enterprise AI hardware market.
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 earlier by The Wall Street Journal.
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