{"id":17901,"date":"2024-08-13T19:14:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T11:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=17901"},"modified":"2024-08-13T19:14:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T11:14:23","slug":"%e6%96%a5%e8%b5%84-6-65-%e4%ba%bf%e7%be%8e%e5%85%83%ef%bc%8camd-%e5%ae%8c%e6%88%90%e6%94%b6%e8%b4%ad%e6%ac%a7%e6%b4%b2%e6%9c%80%e5%a4%a7%e7%a7%81%e4%ba%ba-ai%e5%ae%9e%e9%aa%8c%e5%ae%a4-silo-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/17901.html","title":{"rendered":"AMD acquires Silo AI, Europe&#039;s largest private AI lab, for $665 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/amd\" title=\"[SEE ARTICLES WITH [AMD] LABELS]\" target=\"_blank\" >AMD<\/a> Today, it was officially announced that it has completed the largest private AI laboratory in Europe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/silo-ai\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >Silo AI<\/a> of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e6%94%b6%e8%b4%ad\" title=\"[See articles with [acquisition] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >Acquisition<\/a>,<strong>The transaction amount is approximately US$665 million (currently RMB 4.773 billion), paid in full in cash<\/strong>. At this point, Silo AI&#039;s scientists and engineers officially joined the AMD family.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17902\" title=\"1da6a8d0j00si5lup000ud0014000mhm\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1da6a8d0j00si5lup000ud0014000mhm.jpg\" alt=\"1da6a8d0j00si5lup000ud0014000mhm\" width=\"1440\" height=\"809\" \/><\/p>\n<p>AMD&#039;s emphasis on the field of AI is self-evident. This acquisition is an important step in its strategic layout, aiming to further strengthen the company&#039;s leadership in AI and related technologies. Like technology giants such as Google, Meta, and Apple, AMD is also actively transforming to AI, but the difference is that AMD&#039;s investment in this field is relatively late.<\/p>\n<p>Vamsi Boppana, senior vice president of AMD\u2019s Accelerated Computing Group (AIG), said: \u201cAI is our top strategic goal. We will continue to increase our investment in talent and software capabilities to support growing customer deployments and roadmaps.\u201d He also emphasized that the Silo AI team has rich experience in AI model development and integration, especially in large language models. These capabilities will significantly enhance customers\u2019 experience in building high-performance AI solutions on AMD platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Silo AI&#039;s customers include industry giants such as Allianz, Philips, Rolls-Royce and Unilever. This acquisition not only ensures that Silo AI continues to use AMD chips and technology, but will also help AMD advance the development of open source generative AI training and application software.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMD today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Silo AI, Europe's largest privately held AI lab, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $665 million (currently about RMB 4,773 million). Silo AI scientists and engineers have now joined the AMD family. AMD's focus on AI is clear, and this acquisition is an important step in its strategy to further strengthen its leadership position in AI and related technologies. Like Google, Meta, Apple and other tech giants, AMD is actively transitioning to AI, but unlike them, AMD is relatively new to the field. Senior Vice President, Accelerated Computing Group (AIG), AMD<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[1549,333,3430,1747],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-17901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-amd","tag-silo-ai","tag-1747"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17901"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=17901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}