ZAYA1-8B: Zyphra's Reasoning MoE Trained Entirely on AMD MI300X That Punches Far Above Its Weight Class - May 8, 2026

In this episode, Chris and Laura discuss ZAYA1-8B, a sub-billion-parameter reasoning model trained by Zyphra on AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs. They explore the model's architecture, its performance benchmarks, and the implications of its Apache 2.0 release for AI hardware.

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