Advancing AI: AMD Collaborates with Industry Leaders to Deliver Advanced AI Solutions

At the "Advancing AI" event, AMD showcased its collaboration with industry leaders such as Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Dell Technologies, HPE, Lenovo, Supermicro, Arista, Broadcom, and Cisco. These companies are working together with AMD to provide advanced AI solutions across cloud, enterprise, and PCs. AMD introduced several new products at the event, including the AMD Instinct MI300 Series data center AI accelerators, ROCm 6 open software stack with optimizations for Large Language Models (LLMs), and Ryzen 8040 Series processors with Ryzen AI.

"AI is the future of computing, and AMD is uniquely positioned to power the end-to-end infrastructure that will define this AI era," said AMD Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su. "We are experiencing strong demand for our new Instinct MI300 GPUs, which are the highest-performance accelerators in the world for generative AI. We are also gaining momentum for our data center AI solutions with major cloud companies, top server providers, and innovative AI startups. Together, we are rapidly bringing Instinct MI300 solutions to market, accelerating innovation across the entire AI ecosystem."

Advancing Data Center AI

During the event, AMD's partners highlighted the adoption and momentum for the AMD Instinct data center AI accelerators. Microsoft discussed its deployment of AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators to power the new Azure ND MI300x v5 Virtual Machine (VM) series optimized for AI workloads. Meta shared its plans to add AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators to its data centers, combined with ROCm 6, to support AI inferencing workloads. Oracle unveiled its OCI bare metal compute solutions featuring AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators and announced the inclusion of these accelerators in their upcoming generative AI service. Leading data center infrastructure providers, including Dell, HPE, Lenovo, and Supermicro, also announced their plans to integrate AMD Instinct MI300 accelerators into their product portfolios.

Bringing an Open, Proven, and Ready AI Software Platform

AMD emphasized the expansion of the software ecosystem supporting AMD Instinct data center accelerators. The latest version of the open-source software stack for AMD Instinct GPUs, ROCm 6, was unveiled. ROCm 6 is optimized for generative AI, particularly large language models, and offers support for new data types, advanced graph and kernel optimizations, optimized libraries, and state-of-the-art attention algorithms. AMD showcased the performance increase achieved with ROCm 6 and MI300X in text generation on Llama 2 compared to ROCm 5 running on the MI250. AI startups Databricks, Essential AI, and Lamini joined AMD on stage to discuss how they leverage AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators and the open ROCm 6 software stack to deliver differentiated AI solutions for enterprise customers. OpenAI also announced support for AMD Instinct accelerators in Triton 3.0, enabling developers to work at a higher level of abstraction on AMD hardware.

Continued Leadership in Advancing AI PCs

With millions of AI PCs shipped to date, AMD introduced new leadership mobile processors with the launch of the latest AMD Ryzen 8040 Series processors, which offer robust AI compute capability. AMD also unveiled Ryzen AI 1.0 Software, a software stack that simplifies the deployment of AI capabilities for Windows applications using pretrained models. Additionally, AMD disclosed that the upcoming next-gen "Strix Point" CPUs, planned for 2024, will feature the AMD XDNA 2 architecture, delivering over a 3x increase in AI compute performance compared to the previous generation. Microsoft also discussed its collaboration with AMD on future AI experiences for Windows PCs.