--- title: Cambridge's planet-scale AI model runs on AMD, not Nvidia description: University of Cambridge researchers built TESSERA, a planetary-scale foundation model for Earth observation, trained entirely on AMD Instinct GPUs using AMD's... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/cambridge-s-planet-scale-ai-model-runs-on-amd-not-nvidia-opszhyitu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Cambridge's planet-scale AI model runs on AMD, not Nvidia | daily.dev og:description: University of Cambridge researchers built TESSERA, a planetary-scale foundation model for Earth observation, trained entirely on AMD Instinct GPUs using AMD's... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/cambridge-s-planet-scale-ai-model-runs-on-amd-not-nvidia-opszhyitu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/oPsZHyITu.png og:image:alt: Cambridge's planet-scale AI model runs on AMD, not Nvidia og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Cambridge's planet-scale AI model runs on AMD, not Nvidia **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary University of Cambridge researchers built TESSERA, a planetary-scale foundation model for Earth observation, trained entirely on AMD Instinct GPUs using AMD's open ROCm software — not Nvidia. The model ingests years of ESA Sentinel satellite imagery and compresses every 10-metre square of Earth's land into a 128-number embedding. These embeddings reduce the labelled data needed for downstream tasks like crop mapping or flood detection by roughly 30x. Inference runs on six bare-metal servers from cloud provider Vultr, each with eight AMD MI325X GPUs, processing about three terabytes of compressed data daily. Cambridge is releasing the embeddings and training recipe free under a Creative Commons licence, aiming to democratise planetary-scale environmental monitoring. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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