{"slug": "anthropic-to-buy-up-to-two-gigawatts-of-gpu-capacity-from-amd", "title": "Anthropic to buy up to two gigawatts of GPU capacity from AMD", "summary": "Anthropic PBC will purchase up to two gigawatts of graphics cards from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. as part of a multibillion-dollar deal announced today. AMD will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic and use Claude to speed up its software development efforts. The AI developer is adopting AMD's MI450 series GPUs, which will be installed in Helios rack systems providing up to 1.4 exaflops of FP8 performance.", "body_md": "### Anthropic to buy up to two gigawatts of GPU capacity from AMD\n\nAnthropic PBC will purchase up to two gigawatts worth of graphics cards from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. as part of a multibillion deal [announced](https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1292/amd-and-anthropic-announce-strategic-partnership-to-deploy-up-to-2-gigawatts-of-amd-instinct-mi450-series-gpus) today.\n\nThe 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nAnother 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.\n\nHelios includes not only GPUs but also central processing units and Pensando data processing units. The latter chips perform more than a dozen infrastructure management tasks. They track hardware reliability metrics such as latency, perform load balancing and encrypt traffic.\n\nAMD and Anthropic will start deploying the hardware in the first half of 2027. Additionally, they will launch a multi-year effort to make the former company’s software development workflow more efficient. AMD plans to “broadly adopt” Claude as part of the effort.\n\nThe initiative will place particular emphasis on speeding up the development of ROCm, a software platform that ships with Helios. It includes a compiler that turns customers’ AI models into an AMD-compatible format. Additionally, ROCm provides tools that boost the performance of training and inference workloads.\n\n“Together, we will accelerate AI adoption at scale and establish Helios as a major platform for the next generation of AI infrastructure,” said AMD Chief Executive Officer Lisa Su.\n\nThe deal is the latest in a series of high-profile hardware contracts inked by AMD since the start of the year.\n\nEarlier this week, the chipmaker [revealed](https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/20/microsoft-will-use-amds-ai-optimized-helios-racks-azure/) that Microsoft Corp. is deploying Helios in its cloud data centers. In February, Meta Platforms Inc. [announced](https://newsroom.amd.com/news/amd-and-meta-announce-expanded-strategic-partnersh/) plans to purchase up to 6 gigawatts worth of graphics cards from AMD. The Facebook parent’s initial order is for a custom GPU based on the MI450 chip series that Anthropic is adopting. Meta also plans to expand its use of AMD’s CPUs.\n\nMeta, Anthropic and other major players in the AI market are purchasing chips from multiple suppliers to avoid supply chain bottlenecks. The latter company’s deal with AMD comes a few months after it [committed](https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-our-use-of-google-cloud-tpus-and-services) to buying billions of dollars worth of AI accelerators from Google LLC and Broadcom Inc. Around the same time, Anthropic [announced](https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/18/nvidia-microsoft-invest-15b-anthropic-part-new-cloud-partnership/) plans to purchase up to 1 gigawatt of additional GPU capacity from Nvidia.\n\n##### Image: [AMD](https://www.amd.com/en/newsroom/press-kits/advancing-ai-2025.html)\n\n# A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE:\n\nSupport our mission to keep content open and free by engaging with theCUBE community. **Join theCUBE’s Alumni Trust Network**, where technology leaders connect, share intelligence and create opportunities.\n\n**15M+ viewers of theCUBE videos**, powering conversations across AI, cloud, cybersecurity and more** 11.4k+ theCUBE alumni**— Connect with more than 11,400 tech and business leaders shaping the future through a unique trusted-based network.\n\n# Are you AWS customer? 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