AMD and spectro cloud launch instinct coder 355, an enterprise AI coding platform capable of local GLM-5.3 inference

AMD, in partnership with Spectro Cloud, unveiled the Instinct Coder 355, an enterprise-grade AI-assisted programming platform. This system is designed to support the inference deployment of GLM-5.3, achieving up to 98% of the frontier model's performance while operating locally. The core hardware configuration features eight AMD Instinct MI355X accelerators, paired with two 64-core EPYC 9575F Zen 5 CPUs. The system is further equipped with 3TB of DDR5-6400 RDIMM memory and a total of 63.36TB of SSD storage. The platform is scalable, with each node supporting up to 85 developers, accommodating 50 concurrently. Spectro Cloud provides the necessary PaletteAI Inference Launchpad management software for the Instinct Coder 355. A key feature of this software is its default configuration to utilize local computational power rather than relying on cloud APIs. Variations of the system are available in Dell and Supermicro configurations, differing in specific hardware specifications.