IBM and AMD Collaborate with Zyphra on AI Infrastructure

IBM and AMD announced a collaboration to deliver advanced AI infrastructure to Zyphra, an open-source AI research and product company. Under a multi-year agreement between IBM and Zyphra, IBM is positioned to deliver a large cluster of AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs on IBM Cloud for Zyphra to use for training frontier multimodal foundation models. This collaboration is expected to deliver among the largest advanced generative AI training capabilities to date, powered by an AMD stack running on IBM Cloud.

Zyphra partnered with IBM and AMD for their cutting-edge product roadmaps and ability to deliver GPU accelerators at the rapid pace required to drive Zyphra’s innovation forward. This agreement is the first large-scale, dedicated training cluster on IBM Cloud leveraging AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs, AMD Pensando Pollara 400 AI NICs, and AMD Pensando Ortano DPUs. The initial deployment was made available to Zyphra in early September with planned expansion in 2026.

Zyphra will use the advanced training cluster to develop multimodal foundation models across language, vision, and audio modalities to power Maia, a general-purpose superagent designed to deliver productivity benefits for knowledge workers across the enterprise. IBM and AMD are uniquely positioned to continue scaling computational resources as Zyphra’s AI model training needs expand.