Evidence-backed European AI register
AMD Silo AI
Reviewed identity, roles, model listings, pricing and evidence for AMD Silo AI.
Dataset compiled 2026-08-27 · evidence over inference
Reviewed identity
- Headquarters scope
- EU headquarters
- Headquarters record
- Helsinki
- Legal entity
- Silo AI Oy — now a wholly owned subsidiary of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (US)
- Ownership
- subsidiary of AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) since 12 Aug 2024; previously VC/PE-backed (Altor divested)
- Founded
- 2017
- Confidence
- high
- Last verified
- 2026-08-22
Evidence boundaries
Organisation listings identify a reviewed canonical record. Model listings show an association in the source register; they do not by themselves establish model creation, current API availability, hosting location or infrastructure ownership.
Model listings
- Type
- text
- Parameters
- 34.2B (BLOOM architecture, ALiBi)
- Context
- 2,048 tokens
- Languages
- Finnish, English, code
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Release
- 2023-12 (checkpoints) / 2024 final
- Type
- text
- Parameters
- 34.2B
- Context
- 2,048 tokens
- Languages
- Finnish, English
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Release
- 2024
- Type
- text
- Parameters
- 7B, 13B, 33B
- Context
- 4,096 tokens
- Languages
- Finnish, English, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, code
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Release
- 2024 (7B) — 33B trained to 2T tokens, staged checkpoints through 2025
- Type
- text
- Parameters
- 70.55B (continued pretraining of Llama 3.1 70B on 165B tokens)
- Context
- 8,192 tokens
- Languages
- Finnish, English (+ code, math)
- Licence
- Llama 3.3 Community License (NOT Apache — a change from Poro 1)
- Release
- 2025-06
- Type
- text
- Parameters
- 8B
- Context
- 8,192 tokens
- Languages
- Finnish, English
- Licence
- Llama 3.3 Community License
- Release
- 2025-06
- Type
- text
- Parameters
- 8B
- Context
- 131,072 tokens
- Languages
- Finnish, English
- Licence
- Llama 3.3 Community License
- Release
- 2026
- Type
- text
- Parameters
- 8B
- Context
- 131,072 tokens
- Languages
- Finnish, English
- Licence
- Llama 3.3 Community License
- Release
- 2026
Profile note
Europe's largest private AI lab until AMD bought it for ~$665M in Aug 2024; the team now sits inside the AMD Artificial Intelligence Group. Crucially the open-model work did NOT stop — Poro 2 (Jun 2025) and Poro 2 Long / Math Reasoning (2026) shipped under the AMD Silo AI name, still with TurkuNLP and HPLT, still on LUMI. Two things changed: there is no independent Finnish model-as-a-service company any more, and licensing regressed from Apache-2.0 (Poro 1, Viking) to the Llama 3.3 Community License (Poro 2) because Poro 2 is a Llama derivative. Founder/CEO Peter Sarlin left AMD in early 2026…
Record sources
- https://www.amd.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024-7-10-amd-to-acquire-silo-ai-to-expand-enterprise-ai-sol.h…
- https://amd.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024-8-12-amd-completes-acquisition-of-silo-ai-to-accelerate.html
- https://huggingface.co/LumiOpen/Poro-34B
- https://huggingface.co/LumiOpen/Viking-33B
- https://huggingface.co/LumiOpen/Llama-Poro-2-70B-Instruct
- https://www.amd.com/en/blogs/2024/viking-7b-the-first-open-llm-for-the-nordic-languages.html
- https://www.amd.com/en/blogs/2026/extending-context-and-exploring-multilingual-reasoning-with-poro.html
- https://sifted.eu/articles/silo-ai-founder-unveils-new-quantum-startup
- https://www.amd.com/