Lisa Su, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), during the 2026 CES event on Monday, January 5, 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
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advanced micro device On Wednesday, it announced a strategic partnership with. human The company announced it would invest up to $5 billion in the artificial intelligence company.
As part of the deal, Anthropic will deploy 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 series graphics processing units (GPUs) in its AMD Helios rack-scale solutions, the chipmaker said. The first gigawatt, a unit of power that has become a common standard for measuring AI data center capacity, will be introduced in the first half of next year, according to the release.
“We are excited to deepen our partnership with Anthropic and deploy AMD Helios at gigawatt scale,” AMD CEO Lisa Su said in a statement.
AMD is one of the big beneficiaries of the AI boom, as it is one of the companies that makes GPUs that can train models and run large-scale workloads. compete directly with NvidiaAlthough it dominates the market, it has contracts with many of the biggest names in the industry, including Anthropic’s rivals. OpenAI.
