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Upstage and AMD Expand Strategic Partnership

·2026.04.10 13:00

Key point

Upstage adopts AMD Instinct MI355 GPUs to accelerate Korea's sovereign AI development.

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Upstage and AMD are expanding their strategic partnership to accelerate the development and deployment of next-generation AI models and strengthen Korea's sovereign AI ecosystem.

The announcement follows a meeting in Seoul between Sung Kim, CEO of Upstage, and Dr. Lisa Su, CEO of AMD. The two companies plan to immediately deploy AMD Instinct MI355 GPUs, with additional deployments to follow according to a multi-stage roadmap over the next year.

This deployment will be used to expand Upstage's Solar LLMs and document processing engine, supporting enterprise workflow automation and sovereign AI initiatives. In particular, it will contribute to the development of sovereign AI models as part of the Korean government's Proprietary AI Foundation Model project.

The two companies stated their goal of combining AMD Instinct GPUs and ROCm open software with Upstage's model and engine capabilities to strengthen Korea's domestic AI ecosystem and diversify sovereign AI infrastructure.

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