Pivot Build AI Briefing — May 9, 2026

Hosts: Leo Park & Maya Rangan In this episode: • Welcome to Pivot Build for Saturday, May 9, 2026. I'm Leo Park. • And I'm Maya Rangan. Today: a small reasoning model trained entirely on AMD silicon, a database company taking on multi-agent state failures, and a ne... • Let's start with Zyphra. They've released ZAYA1-8B, a mixture-of-experts reasoning model with 700 million active parameters out of 8 billion total. Th... • And the part that matters strategically: it was trained end-to-end on AMD's stack. AMD GPUs, AMD networking. That's the first credible reasoning model... • For business leaders, this is less about the benchmark and more about leverage. If AMD can host a real training run for a frontier-adjacent model, you... Subscribe to the newsletter at pivotnews.ai for the full written briefing.