Vast Data announced an expanded collaboration with AMD to help AI cloud providers and enterprises build and operate high-performance AI factories at scale. The collaboration brings together the Vast AI operating system with 6th gen AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct GPUs to support scalable training, inference and agentic AI workloads. Crucial to this approach is Vast’s Disaggregated Shared Everything (DASE) architecture. To address challenges of rising infrastructure and token costs, underutilized GPUs and increasing operational complexity, Vast and AMD are expanding their collaboration to deliver an open and flexible approach to AI infrastructure. The collaboration includes: Vast has selected 6th gen AMD EPYC processors, formerly codenamed “Venice”, to power the 6th-generation of CBox and 3rd-generation of EBox platforms. 6th gen EPYC CPUs bring support for PCIe Gen-6 that enables 2X the I/O bandwidth generationally. An AI infrastructure reference architecture developed by Vast, AMD and DriveNets features AMD Helios rack-scale AI infrastructure coupled with the Vast AI OS and DriveNets AI Fabric networking, documenting support for model training, inference, reinforcement learning (RL) and KV cache workloads.