AMD
2 updates on AMD.
Perplexity brings its local Portable Computer agent to AMD Ryzen AI Max PCs
Portable Computer runs Qwen 3.8 27B or PPLX 27B locally on Windows PCs with AMD Ryzen AI Max chips and at least 24 GB of GPU-accessible memory.
AMD trains its first small language model, AMD-Llama-135M, on MI250 accelerators
AMD trained a 135M model from scratch on Instinct MI250 accelerators and reports up to 3.88x faster CodeLlama-7b inference when it drafts tokens.