Timeline
AMD and Cerebras launched disaggregated inference platform at Advancing AI 2026
AMD and Anthropic announce strategic partnership to deploy up to 2GW of MI450 GPUs
ByteDance Seed releases SpectraReward, a training-free reward model for text-to-image generation.
Released iLLaDA, an 8B diffusion language model trained on 12T tokens.
ByteDance purchased tens of thousands of Iluvatar CoreX AI processors for cloud infrastructure
Building custom data-center CPUs for AI inference, targeting TikTok-scale agent workloads
ByteDance open-sources BAGEL 7B multimodal model under Apache 2.0 license
AMD provides $3.6M MI355X cluster access to vLLM and SGLang maintainers
Launched PCIe-based GPU for AI workloads targeting existing servers
Released GenLIP, a generative pretraining framework for Vision Transformers.