It's great to hear from OpenAI if that's your game, but I don't want to gloss over that we just saw Zen 6 in the flesh for the first time, which likely sets up a consumer Zen 6 for later this year. — Jake Roach

Brockman says now we're seeing enterprise agents and scientific discovery "take off."

Su: "Every single time I see you, you tell me you need more compute."

Greg Brockman, president and co-founder of OpenAI, is on stage. He calls OpenAI an "overnight success seven years in the making," reminding everyone of the technical work behind AI.

He asked how many people use ChatGPT. Lots of hands raised.

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AMD claims a 10x performance increase with MI455X compared to MI355X.

Here's the MI455X and Venice:

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Venice is built with 2nm, up to 256 Zen 6 cores. A total of 4,600 Zen 6 cores, 31TB of HBM4 memory, and 18,000 GPU compute units

Helios is on track to launch later this year, Su says.

Here's the Helios compute tray. It includes four MI455X GPUs and Epyc CPUs, all of which are liquid cooled.

There are 320 billion transistors, 432GB of HBM4. Four of those GPUs are in a compute tray, driven by a Venice Epyc CPU.

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That Helios platform includes HBM4 and up to 72 GPUs in the rack, built on 2nm and 3nm processes.

And there's one on stage!

It's a double-wide design that weighs nearly 7,000 pounds.

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Su points out that most people experience AI in the cloud today.

"Every major cloud provider runs on AMD EPYC CPUs, she said. But they need more scaling for compute, and the increase in training and inference requires more AI hardware.

That is why AMD built Helios, a rack-scale platform "for the AI" era. This was introduced in the middle of 2025.

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AMD says it "doesn't have nearly enough compute" for the rate of innovation, echoing Nvidia's claims earlier today.

Su wants to increase to 10+ YottaFlops in the next five years. A YottaFlop is a 1 followed by 24 zeroes. "There's never been a technology like AI," she says.

She says that only AMD can deliver AI across CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, and custom accelerators. We're starting with the cloud.

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Su sees 5 billion people using AI daily within five years. That's more than half of the world's population.

AMD technology "touches the lives" of billions of people every day, says Lisa Su. I always appreciate that AMD includes "gaming" when looking at broad strokes because it is a large, legitimate segment that's so often ignored. — Jake Roach

Dr. Lisa Su has taken the stage.

"It will come as no surprise that tonight is all about AI," she said. The theme is that "you ain't seen nothing yet."

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We've got an AMD video, with a robot narrating a video, it seems? It's showcasing how gaming, industrialization, and education are being affected by AI.

We're seeing AI-mapped genomes and self-driving cars. We're hearing about faster travel and better energy sources. It implied an AI-flying plane.

"Video conceived by humans. Made possible by AI," it reads.

We're almost there.

But first, Gary Shapiro, the head of the Consumer Technology Association, which runs CES, is introducing Lisa Su. She's no stranger to CES, having made this keynote before.

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AMD's keynote follows presentations from both Intel and Nvidia. Intel announced its Core Ultra Series 3 processors for mobile, so we're expecting to see how AMD fights back. But AMD has promised that this keynote will be about "the AMD vision for delivering future AI solutions," so we're sure to see plenty of enterprise talk as well, or even heavy technical talk like Nvidia's AI-focused conference earlier today.

Our team is seated both in the Palazzo ballroom at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas and virtually at home. Thanks for joining us, we are ready to go. The event is set to start at 6:30 PM PT / 9:30 PM ET.

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• Bumstead

  I love the circular links in the article that never take the reader to the live video stream.

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