Semiconductor giant AMD is doubling down on artificial intelligence with two major announcements that reinforce its growing influence in both enterprise and developer ecosystems: the global availability of the new Radeon AI PRO R9700 workstation GPU and a strategic multi-year partnership with OpenAI to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs for next-generation AI infrastructure.
Powering AI innovation from desktop to data center
The chipmaker’s newly launched Radeon AI PRO R9700, available from retailers worldwide at an MSRP of US$1,299, brings data-center-class performance to local workstations.
Built on the RDNA 4 architecture, the card delivers scalable, cost-effective computing for developers, researchers, and creators running demanding AI workloads on both Linux and Windows.
Equipped with 32GB of GDDR6 memory, PCIe Gen 5 support, and multi-GPU scalability via AMD’s ROCm open software platform, the R9700 enables users to train and deploy medium to large AI models directly on desktop systems — accelerating tasks such as large language models and diffusion models without relying solely on cloud resources.
This marks a key step in the company’s strategy to make AI acceleration more accessible and affordable to a broader developer base.
A multi-gigawatt partnership with OpenAI
In parallel, AMD and OpenAI announced a sweeping multi-generation agreement that will see OpenAI deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD Instinct GPUs, starting with an initial 1 gigawatt deployment of the Instinct MI450 Series in the second half of 2026.
The partnership deepens the companies’ long-standing collaboration, which began with the MI300X and MI350X series, aligning both firms’ hardware and software roadmaps to push the limits of AI compute scalability.
“We are thrilled to partner with OpenAI to deliver AI compute at massive scale,” said Dr. Lisa Su, chair and CEO of AMD. “This partnership brings the best of AMD and OpenAI together to enable the world’s most ambitious AI buildout and advance the entire ecosystem.”
Dr. Lisa Su, chair and CEO of AMD
OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman called the deal “a major step in building the compute capacity needed to realize AI’s full potential,” while OpenAI president Greg Brockman emphasized the importance of “deep collaboration across every layer of the stack.”
Under the agreement, OpenAI will receive a warrant for up to 160 million AMD shares, vesting in tranches as deployment and performance milestones are met. The chipmaker expects the partnership to generate tens of billions of dollars in revenue over time and be highly accretive to its non-GAAP earnings-per-share, according to CFO Jean Hu.
Scaling the AI future
With the Radeon AI PRO R9700 enabling advanced AI work on desktops and the OpenAI partnership powering the largest-scale AI infrastructures, the company is positioning itself as a key player across the full AI spectrum — from individual innovators to global data centers.
“Building the future of AI requires innovation from the chip level to the cloud,” Dr. Su said. “With these advances, AMD is empowering everyone — from researchers to enterprises — to accelerate what’s possible.”
AMD will discuss the partnership and its broader AI strategy in a teleconference at 8:00 a.m. ET today, and will report its fiscal third quarter 2025 financial results on November 4, 2025.
