AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system

AMD announced its Helios AI rack-scale system designed for large-scale AI workloads, aiming to compete with Nvidia's offerings. The system, backed by customers like Microsoft and OpenAI, will ship later this year and is touted as high-performance for training frontier AI models. AMD also revealed its Venice-X CPU for data centers, expected in 2027, highlighting growing AI compute demand.