AMD has announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire AI chip startup Taalas. Taalas’ technology will complement AMD’s full-stack AI platform, including AMD Helios rackscale solutions, AMD Instinct GPUs, AMD EPYC CPUs, AMD ROCm software and the company’s expanding AI ecosystem. AMD plans to integrate the technology into its accelerator roadmap and develop system-level solutions with AMD Instinct GPUs. “We founded Taalas to rethink AI inference from the ground up by building the hardware around the model,” said Ljubisa Bajic, co-founder and CEO of Taalas. As AI moves into more real-time, high-volume applications, AMD and Taalas will help customers deploy inference workloads more efficiently across a growing range of applications, AMD said.