Large-Scale AI Training in Microsoft Azure is Powered by AMD Instinct MI200 Accelerators

“We’re proud to build upon our long-term commitment to innovation with AMD and make Azure the first public cloud to deploy clusters of the AMD Instinct MI200 accelerator for large-scale AI training,” said Eric Boyd, corporate vice president, Azure AI, Microsoft. “We have started testing the MI200 with our own AI workloads and are seeing the great performance, and we look forward to continuing our collaboration with AMD to bring customers more performance, choice, and flexibility for their AI needs.”