What was announced at the AMD Advancing AI 2026 keynote?

Helios rack-scale system (GA), Anthropic Instinct partnership (Announced), Venice 256-core EPYC (Announced), AI-driven ROCm (Announced).

AMD Advancing AI 2026: Build What's Next

Lisa Su · Jul 23, 2026 · 2h 14m

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AMD's 2026 keynote was about Helios, its rack-scale system built on the MI455 GPU, Venice EPYC CPUs and Pensando networking, now in full production with Anthropic and OpenAI on stage as partners. Su also showed a 256-core Venice CPU aimed at agent workloads and an AI-driven ROCm aimed at removing software friction.

Key themes: AI infrastructure, Agents · AI-written summary from the published transcript

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Helios combines the MI455 GPU, Venice EPYC CPUs and Pensando DPUs in one rack-scale system
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Helios is in full production, with shipments starting at the end of the third quarter and ramping in the fourth
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Anthropic joined as AMD's newest Instinct partner
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OpenAI is one of the deepest and earliest partners deploying Helios
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A 256-core Venice EPYC CPU is built for agent workloads, "more agents per rack"
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AMD is bringing AI-driven development to ROCm to automate optimization and bring-up