AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic as part of computing power deal

AMD announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic, committing to invest up to $5 billion and providing computing power through AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs (specialized processors designed for AI tasks). Anthropic will deploy 2 gigawatts (a measure of power used to describe AI data center capacity) of these processors in AMD Helios systems, starting with 1 gigawatt in the first half of 2026, as part of Anthropic's effort to expand its computing infrastructure to meet growing demand for its Claude AI models.