IBM AI Accelerator announces groundbreaking new offerings and a strategic partnership with AMD to revolutionize the AI landscape.

IBM has selected AMD to provide AI accelerators for the IBM Cloud. This is another milestone for AMD, which needs cloud adoption to achieve its goals. And IBM adds security and credibility with IBM watsonx as the two companies collaborate to help IBM clients transform their business with AI.

IBM Cloud added Nvidia H100 GPUs to its cloud platform in October 2024, a year after deploying Nvidia A100s. It is also adding Intel's Gaudi 3 to its offerings. IBM is reportedly in discussions with AWS for a $475m deal in which IBM will use AWS for AI cloud services.

IBM and AMD inked a deal to offer MI300X accelerators as a service on IBM Cloud, targeting enterprise customers with plans for AI workloads and HPC applications.

This AI accelerator service is expected to be available in the first half of 2025. With the new offering, IBM and AMD aim to boost performance and efficiency for generative artificial intelligence (AI) models and high-performance computing applications for business customers.