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River AI says it will free users from renting AI from closed labs. General Catalyst, AMP PBC, Temasek and NVIDIA, the money behind that pitch, are also major Anthropic investors.
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River AI says it will free users from renting AI from closed labs. General Catalyst, AMP PBC, Temasek and NVIDIA, the money behind that pitch, are also major Anthropic investors.

AMD signed a 15-year, $14B+ infrastructure deal with Core Scientific for 500+ MW of AI data center capacity, with an option to scale to 2.5 GW - its third major hosting deal in five months.

Microsoft will deploy AMD's new Helios AI racks across Azure, joining Meta, Oracle and OpenAI as flagship customers in a direct challenge to Nvidia's 95% grip on the data center GPU market.

ZML's LLMD inference server runs Llama, Qwen, and Mistral on Nvidia, AMD, TPU, Apple Metal, and Intel Arc from a single binary - for free.

AMD's CDNA 5 accelerator on TSMC 2nm with 432 GB HBM4 memory - the GPU behind OpenAI's 1GW deployment and Oracle's 50,000-chip supercluster.

AMD Instinct MI350P brings CDNA 4 to a standard PCIe slot: 144GB HBM3E, 4 TB/s bandwidth, 2.3 PFLOPS MXFP8, and 600W passive cooling for air-cooled servers.

AMD Helios packs 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs and 31 TB HBM4 into a single rack delivering 2.9 FP4 ExaFLOPS for AI workloads.

Zyphra's ZAYA1-8B matches Claude 4.5 Sonnet on HMMT 2025 math benchmarks at just 760M active parameters, trained entirely on AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs under Apache 2.0.

Zyphra's ZAYA1-8B is an 8.4B-parameter MoE reasoning model with only 760M active parameters that matches DeepSeek-R1-0528 on math and coding benchmarks while running at a fraction of the compute cost.

Six companies just released MRC, an open networking protocol that routes AI training traffic across hundreds of simultaneous paths to end GPU idle time at supercomputer scale.

The AMD Instinct MI430X is AMD's CDNA 5 HPC accelerator with 432GB HBM4, full FP64 support, and 19.6 TB/s bandwidth - designed for sovereign AI and scientific supercomputing alongside the MI455X AI GPU.

AMD Instinct MI325X specs, benchmarks, and analysis. 256GB HBM3e at 6 TB/s, 2.6 PFLOPS FP8, CDNA3 architecture - the memory-capacity upgrade to the MI300X targeting large model inference.