AMD has introduced its first series of fully open-source 1-billion-parameter large language models (LLMs), called AMD OLMo that is aimed at a variety of applications and pre-trained on the company's Instinct MI250 GPUs. The LLMs are said to offer strong reasoning, instruction-following, and chat capabilities.
AMD's open source LLMs are meant to improve the company's position in the AI industry and enable its clients (and everyone else) to deploy these open-source models with AMD's hardware. By open-sourcing the data, weights, training recipes, and code, AMD aims to empower developers to not only replicate the models but also build upon them for further innovation. Beyond use in datacenters, AMD has enabled local deployment of OLMo models on AMD Ryzen AI PCs equipped with neural processing units (NPUs), enabling developers to leverage AI models on personal devices.
