Upstage deepens partnership with AMD to power sovereign AI push

Upstage is expanding its partnership with the U.S. chip giant AMD to accelerate next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) model development and advance Korea’s sovereign AI ecosystem. The company announced that the two have agreed to expand their strategic collaboration following a meeting Thursday between its CEO Kim Sung-hoon and AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su in central Seoul. During the meeting, the two heads discussed a range of collaboration opportunities to drive AI innovation across the region. As part of this partnership, Upstage will immediately begin deploying AMD’s Instinct MI355 graphics processing unit (GPUs) supported by a multiphase road map over the next year. The company said it plans to use the chips to develop and scale up its large language model, called Solar, and AI-powered document processing engines designed to transform enterprise workflows. "AMD is a cornerstone of global AI computing infrastructure, and this collaboration will be instrumental in both advancing our proprietary Solar LLMs and building Korea's sovereign AI model," Kim said. "Pairing that with doWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times