AMD has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Taalas, a Toronto-based startup whose chips are custom-built around individual AI models, the company announced on August 6, 2026. The deal folds specialized inference silicon into an accelerator lineup AMD has spent the past year expanding, and it gives the chipmaker an engineering team that has spent three years attacking the cost of serving AI models rather than training them. Taalas was founded in 2023 and builds what it calls “Hardcore…