AMD expands its collaboration with South Korean startup Upstage. The partnership aims to accelerate AI development and support sovereign AI initiatives. AMD CEO Lisa Su and Upstage CEO Sung Kim announced the deal in Seoul.
Upstage will deploy AMD Instinct MI355 accelerators over the next year. The partnership leverages AMD GPUs to enhance Upstage’s large language models. The hardware also supports Upstage's document processing engines.
The collaboration supports a Korean government-led project to develop a sovereign AI model. This initiative aims to strengthen and diversify the nation's domestic AI ecosystem and infrastructure.