DALLAS - Applied Digital Corporation (NASDAQ:APLD), a company specializing in the design and operation of next-generation digital infrastructure, has announced the addition of a new AI customer, Together AI. The partnership involves a $75 million contract, with an $18 million prepayment, for Applied Digital to provide Together AI with access to its advanced computing ecosystem.
Together AI, a company focused on AI research and decentralized cloud services, will utilize Applied Digital's H100 GPUs and NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)'s NVLink technology to enhance its AI model training and deployment capabilities. This technology integration is expected to address the high demands of AI and high-performance computing (HPC) markets.
Applied Digital's CEO, Wes Cummins (NYSE:CMI), emphasized the company's commitment to supporting AI innovators with its comprehensive cloud services, which are designed to cater to the intensive requirements of AI applications. Together AI's CEO, Vipul Ved Prakash, also highlighted the collaboration's role in offering scalable capacity to their customers, ranging from startups to enterprises, for building new AI models and applications.
The infrastructure provided by Applied Digital features a dynamic computing ecosystem with high-speed InfiniBand fabric, delivering aggregated bandwidth of 3.2 Tbps, and an optimized Rail Design for efficient GPU communication.
The HPC market, fueled by the increasing power requirements of AI technologies, is projected to experience significant growth, potentially reaching a global revenue of $65.12 billion by 2030. Applied Digital aims to leverage this growth by providing specialized solutions for the AI and HPC sectors.
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