By Josh Beckerman
Advanced Micro Devices unveiled its MI350 Series accelerators and several other new artificial-intelligence-focused products as it looks to challenge industry rival Nvidia.
The MI350 Series consists of Instinct MI350X and MI355X graphics-processing units and platforms, AMD said.
Along with the debut of the new offerings, AMD said it partnered with prominent companies such as Meta Platforms, OpenAI, Oracle and Microsoft as it seeks an open AI ecosystem.
At AMD's Advancing AI event, the Santa Clara, Calif., company said Meta "detailed how Instinct MI300X is broadly deployed for Llama 3 and Llama 4 inference," while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discussed "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 said Thursday that it "will be among the first hyperscalers to offer an AI supercomputer with AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs," while Micron Technology and Supermicro also issued AMD-related updates.
AMD said its Helios AI rack, scheduled for 2026, would be built on its next-generation Instinct MI400 Series GPUs.
The company also said the AMD Developer Cloud would be broadly available for developer and open-source communities.
Rival chip-maker Nvidia in March 2024 introduced its Blackwell platform to run generative AI. Nvidia announced various collaborations this week, including agreements with L'Oreal and Novo Nordisk.
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(END) Dow Jones Newswires
06-12-25 1553ET
