Lisa Su the CEO of AMD recently showcased a new AI server planned to launch in 2026 with the goal of challenging Nvidia’s flagship offerings. In addition the OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the company’s intent to adopt AMD’s latest chips.
Su took the stage at a developer conference in San Jose, California, called “Advancing AI” to discuss the MI350 series and MI400 series AI chips that she said would compete with Nvidia’s Blackwell line of processors.
The MI400 series of chips will be the basis of a new server called “Helios” that AMD plans to release next year. The move comes as the competition between Nvidia and other AI chip firms has shifted away from selling individual chips to selling servers packed with scores or even hundreds of processors, woven together with networking chips from the same company.
During its keynote presentation, AMD said that many aspects of the Helios servers – such as the networking standards – would be made openly available and shared with competitors such as Intel. The move was a direct swipe at market leader Nvidia, which uses proprietary technology called NVLink to string together its chips but has recently started to license that technology as pressure mounts from rivals. “The future of AI is not going to be built by any one company or in a closed ecosystem. It’s going to be shaped by open collaboration across the industry,” Su said.
Su was joined onstage by OpenAI’s Sam Altman. The ChatGPT creator is working with AMD on the firm’s MI450 chips to improve their design for AI work. “Our infrastructure ramp-up over the last year, and what we’re looking at over the next year, have just been a crazy, crazy thing to watch,” Altman said. During her speech, executives from Elon Musk-owned xAI, Meta Platforms and Oracle took to the stage to discuss their respective uses of AMD processors.
Source: Reuters
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