IBM and AMD have announced a strategic collaboration to provide advanced AI infrastructure to Zyphra, an open-source AI research and product company based in San Francisco, California. This multi-year partnership aims to deliver cutting-edge AI capabilities through the deployment of a large-scale cluster of AMD Instinct™ MI300X GPUs on IBM Cloud. The collaboration is set to support Zyphra’s development of frontier multimodal foundation models, marking one of the most significant generative AI training deployments to date.
Zyphra, recently valued at $1 billion following its Series A financing round, is focused on building an open-science superintelligence lab dedicated to advancing innovations in novel neural network architectures, long-term memory, and continual learning. The company has partnered with IBM and AMD to leverage their cutting-edge product roadmaps and the ability to deliver GPU accelerators at the rapid pace required to drive Zyphra’s innovation forward.
This agreement represents the first large-scale, dedicated training cluster on IBM Cloud utilizing AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs, AMD Pensando™ Pollara 400 AI NICs, and AMD Pensando Ortano DPUs. The initial deployment was made available to Zyphra in early September, with plans for expansion through 2026.
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Zyphra will utilize this advanced training cluster to develop multimodal foundation models across language, vision, and audio modalities to power Maia, a general-purpose superagent designed to enhance productivity for knowledge workers across various industries. IBM and AMD are uniquely positioned to continue scaling computational resources as Zyphra’s AI model training needs expand.
This collaboration signifies the first time AMD’s full-stack training platform encompassing compute through networking has been successfully integrated and scaled on IBM Cloud. Zyphra is honored to lead the way in developing frontier models with AMD silicon on IBM Cloud. The partnership aims to power the next era of open-source, enterprise superintelligence.
The collaboration between IBM and AMD delivers innovation at the speed and scale clients demand, setting a new standard in AI infrastructure. By combining IBM’s enterprise cloud expertise with AMD’s leadership in high-performance computing and AI acceleration, the partnership supports Zyphra‘s pioneering work in multimodal and inference-efficient AI, enabling organizations to build smarter businesses and unlock AI solutions that drive real-world outcomes.
IBM and AMD are forging new ground in AI infrastructure, redefining performance, efficiency, and scale for enterprise and startup customers. Their hybrid infrastructure environment offers a foundation for scaling AI, with options such as hybrid multi-cloud that can help boost cloud ROI and value for clients’ generative AI deployments.