Anthropic to buy up to two gigawatts of GPU capacity from AMD
Anthropic PBC will purchase up to two gigawatts worth of graphics cards from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. as part of a multibillion deal announced today.
The partnership also has several other components. Notably, AMD will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic and use Claude to speed up its software development efforts.
The artificial intelligence developer is adopting AMD’s MI450 series of graphics processing units. It will install the GPUs in appliances based on the latter company’s Helios rack design. According to AMD, each Helios system (pictured) includes 72 graphics cards that together provide up to 1.4 exaflops of performance when processing FP8 data.
Another core selling point of the appliance is that it includes 31 terabytes of HBM4 memory. That gives Helios 50% more capacity than Nvidia Corp.’s flagship Vera Rubin systems. AMD’s appliance also provides 43 terabits per second of scale-out bandwidth, a metric that measures how fast it can move data to and from the other racks in an AI cluster.
