AMD is making a serious play for Nvidia's crown with its new Helios rack-scale AI platform, Venice CPUs, and MI455X chips.

AMD is taking aim at Nvidia with Helios, its first AI rack system, and has landed Microsoft as a new customer, joining Meta, OpenAI and Oracle.

But it’s not clear just how much AMD AI compute Microsoft is buying

Microsoft will use AMD’s AI-optimized Helios racks in Azure - SiliconANGLE

Following ZT acquisition, company looks to compete with Nvidia's system-level approach

Company has already tested the beefy AI rack