AMD invited us to their biggest launch of the year to check out the behind-the-scenes.
At Advancing AI 2026,
@AnushElangovan (VP, AI Software at AMD) and
@QuentinAnthon15 (VP, AI Engineering at Zyphra) join
@sophiadew on the floor to break down Helios, ROCm AI, and the Anthropic partnership, live the day it all shipped:
1:05 What actually changed today: AMD goes rack-scale
3:03 ROCm skills land in Claude Code and Codex
3:51 Why Zyphra bet its whole stack on AMD
3:57 Sparse mixture-of-experts and the HBM advantage
6:25 Why an open stack beats a closed one
8:52 The wall of logos: Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta
9:27 Why the frontier labs are committing gigawatts
11:30 Why the next wave will exceed expectations
17:02 Frontier models running on your own laptop + DeepSeek V4 Pro at 8-10 tokens/sec
17:41 How ROCm AI hits 3.3x inference gains
19:38 A kernel rewritten overnight with no humans in the loop
21:40 Do you still need kernel experts?
23:47 Why CPUs are critical for the agentic AI era
25:40 An agent that's been rewriting a driver for four months
28:14 The internet parallel, and the dark-fiber lesson