AMD announced the all-cash transaction on Wednesday.

The Californian company described the acquisition as a significant step towards delivering end-to-end AI solutions.

It will also give AMD new tools to compete with Nvidias high-performance chips.

US chip giant AMD to buy European LLM leader Silo AI for $665M

Silo describes itself as Europes largest private AI lab.

The company is best know forbuilding large language models (LLMs) particularly for low-resource languages.

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At the time, the company said its ultimate goal was to build LLMs for every EU language.

Those plans remain subject to regulatory approval.

AMD expects to exit the acquisition in the second half of this year.

If that happens, the deal will become one of the largest-ever purchases of a European AI startup.

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He leads our coverage of European tech and oversees our talented team of writers.

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