Jul 23, 2026
positiveAMD Advancing AI 2026: Anthropic Deal Adds 2GW MI450 Deployment, Total Committed Demand Hits 14GW — Helios Rack Priced at $5.25M
AMD's Advancing AI 2026 conference in San Francisco concluded its first day with a landmark announcement: Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of MI450 GPUs in AMD Helios rack-scale systems, with the first gigawatt beginning in H1 2027. AMD will make a $5 billion strategic equity investment in Anthropic. Combined with existing 6GW Meta and 6GW OpenAI commitments, AMD's total disclosed committed accelerator demand has reached 14 gigawatts. The Helios rack was priced at $5.25 million per unit.