AMD and OpenAI have forged a 6 gigawatt agreement to power OpenAI’s AI infrastructure across multiple generations of AMD Instinct GPUs.
In a statement , the chipmaker said the first deployment of MI450 GPUs was set to start in the second half of next year.
The GenAI poster child said it planned to work with AMD as a "core strategic compute partner", including a roll out of rack AI solutions as well as a commitment to future generations.
The deal comes after OpenAI also hooked up with Nvidia in a mega chip agreement which signaled the LLM builder's intent to buy at least 10 gigawatts of the GPU giant's systems for its datacenters, in return for an investment of up to $100 billion.
The AMD contract is also linked to a financial investment. As part of it, the house of Zen has issued OpenA