AMD Unveils Instella: A Family of Fully Open 3B Parameter Language Models

2025-03-24

AMD has announced Instella, a family of fully open, state-of-the-art 3-billion-parameter language models (LLMs) trained from scratch on AMD Instinct™ MI300X GPUs. Instella outperforms existing fully open models of similar size and achieves competitive results against leading open-weight models like Llama-3.2-3B. AMD is open-sourcing all model artifacts, including weights, training configurations, datasets, and code, to foster collaboration and innovation within the AI community. The models leverage efficient training techniques and a multi-stage training pipeline.

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AMD Instinct™ MI300X Boosts Ansys Fluent CFD Performance

2025-01-19

AMD released a blog post showcasing the impressive performance of its Instinct™ MI300X accelerator in Ansys Fluent computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. Benchmarks using four benchmark models (sedan car, aircraft wing, exhaust system, and F1 race car) on both AMD MI300X and NVIDIA H100 platforms showed up to a 10% improvement in time-to-solution for the MI300X. This is attributed to the MI300X's 192GB HBM3 memory capacity and high memory bandwidth, along with AMD Infinity Cache™. The blog details the testing methodology, system configurations, and a step-by-step guide to installing and running the benchmarks. The MI300X proves to be an excellent choice for applications requiring steady-state analysis.

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