AMD wants in on the DeepSeek do-it-cheap AI shift
DeepSeek opened up the door to a world of useful large language models that may not require billions in investment. Advanced Micro Devices wants to be involved with anyone who wants to step through that door.
The chipmaker published a blog post explaining how to set up and use its processors in concert with DeepSeek’s distilled reasoning models to answer complex queries.
“Deploying these DeepSeek R1 distilled models on AMD Ryzen™ AI processors and Radeon™ graphics cards is incredibly easy and available now through LM Studio,” the company wrote. “Depending on your AMD hardware, each of these models will offer state-of-the-art reasoning capability.”
AMD has been a big industry laggard, trailing the VanEck Semiconductor ETF by nearly 60% over the past year. But it’s the second-best performing member of that ETF today (trailing only ASML, which reported great earnings), while Nvidia is suffering another big loss.
