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SEOUL, South Korea and SANTA CLARA, Calif. – March 18, 2026 – AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Upstage, South Korea’s leading AI lab focused on developing Artificial General Intelligence, today announced an expansion of their strategic collaboration to accelerate the development and deployment of next-generation AI models and contribute to Korea’s sovereign AI ecosystem.
The announcement follows a meeting in Seoul between Upstage CEO Sung Kim and AMD Chair and CEO Dr.
Lisa Su, where the two leaders discussed a range of collaboration opportunities to drive AI innovation across the region.
Under the expanded collaboration, Upstage will immediately begin deploying AMD Instinct™ MI355 GPUs supported by a multi-phase roadmap over the next year.
The deployment will enable the development and scaling of Upstage’s large language models and document processing engines designed to transform enterprise workflows and support sovereign AI initiatives.
This includes contributing to the development of a sovereign AI model as part of Korea's government-led Proprietary AI Foundation Model project.
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