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Anthropic to Deploy 2 Gigawatts of AMD GPUs

SANTA CLARA &&num;8212&semi; AMD and Anthropic have announced a strategic partnership to deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs in AMD Helios rack-scale solutions, with deployment of the first gigawatt beginning in the first half of 2027&period;&NewLine;The extraordinary pace of AI adoption is driving rapid growth in demand for training and inference capacity&period; Anthropic is scaling its compute infrastructure to serve strong and growing demand for Claude, and its adoption of AMD Helios at gigawatt scale represents a major expansion of AMD’s position at the center of the global AI infrastructure buildout&period;&NewLine;Anthropic will deploy AMD Helios rack-scale solutions featuring AMD Instinct™ MI455X GPUs, part of the AMD Instinct MI450 Series, together with AMD EPYC™ &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Venice” CPUs, AMD Pensando™ networking and ROCm™ software&period; Purpose-built for next-generation AI training and inference, Helios delivers the performance, efficiency and scale required for the most demanding AI workloads&period; This deployment builds on Anthropic’s existing use of AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs&period;&NewLine;In addition, AMD and Anthropic are launching a multi-year engineering collaboration to use Claude to accelerate AMD software development&period; Specifically, the teams will use Claude to optimize workloads for AMD Instinct GPUs and accelerate ROCm software development&period; AMD will also broadly adopt Claude across its engineering and product development teams&period;&NewLine;AMD has committed to make a strategic equity investment of up to &dollar;5 billion in Anthropic in the future&period;&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are thrilled to deepen our partnership with Anthropic and deploy AMD Helios at gigawatt scale,” said Dr&period; Lisa Su, chair and CEO, AMD&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This collaboration brings together Anthropic’s leadership in frontier AI with the full strength of AMD high-performance computing&period; Together, we will accelerate AI adoption at scale and establish Helios as a major platform for the next generation of AI infrastructure&period;”&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Access to compute is central to keeping Claude at the frontier and meeting demand from our customers,” said Tom Brown, co-founder and chief compute officer, Anthropic&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;By partnering with AMD across the stack, we are securing the capacity we need and optimizing it for training and serving Claude&period; Running across a diversified range of hardware lets us map the right workloads to the right hardware&period;”&NewLine;

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