AMD launches MI350 series and previews the Helios rack

AMD/Instinct MI300 and MI350

AMD launched the Instinct MI350 series accelerators and previewed Helios, a next-generation rack-scale AI system featuring the forthcoming MI400 series GPUs. Meta, OpenAI, xAI, Oracle and Microsoft described production deployments on AMD hardware.

• MI350 series launched; MI355X offers 40% better price-performance than competing solutions; MI350 delivers 4x compute increase and 35x inference gain generation-on-generation.
• Helios preview: next-generation rack architecture with MI400 series to arrive, delivering 10x inference performance on Mixture of Experts models.
• Meta running Llama inference at scale on MI300X; OpenAI and Microsoft both in production; Oracle adopting MI355X on Azure.