Oracle, AMD to expand AI partnership

(Sharecast News) - Oracle and Advanced Micro Devices said on Tuesday that they were expanding their long-standing, multi-generation collaboration to help customers significantly scale their AI capabilities and initiatives. As part of the partnership expansion, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) will be a launch partner for the first publicly available AI supercluster, with an initial deployment of 50,000 graphic processing units, starting in the third quarter of 2026 and expanding in 2027 and beyond.

The companies said demand for large-scale AI capacity is accelerating as next-generation AI models outgrow the limits of current AI clusters.

To train and run these workloads, customers need flexible, open compute solutions engineered for extreme scale and efficiency, they said.

Mahesh Thiagarajan, executive vice president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, said: "Our customers are building some of the world's most ambitious AI applications, and that requires robust, scalable, and high-performance infrastructure.

"By bringing together the latest AMD processor innovations with OCI's secure, flexible platform and advanced networking powered by Oracle Acceleron, customers can push the boundaries with confidence. Through our decade-long collaboration with AMD - from EPYC to AMD Instinct accelerators - we're continuing to deliver the best price-performance, open, secure, and scalable cloud foundation in partnership with AMD to meet customer needs for this next era of AI."