Applied Digital Onboards First Major Customer for Cloud Service
14 Julho 2023 - 9:00AM
Applied Digital Corporation (Nasdaq:
APLD) ("Applied Digital " or the
"Company"), a designer, builder, and operator of
next-generation digital infrastructure designed for
High-Performance Computing (“HPC”) applications, today announced
the successful onboarding of its previously-announced first major
AI Cloud Services customer, Character.AI. The onboarding, which
includes the activation of the first compute cluster for
Character.AI, comes just two months after the Company signed its
first major AI customer in May 2023. In conjunction, Applied
Digital received the first prepayment of its 24-month, $180 million
contract, and the services are expected to be fully in place by
year-end. The Company will receive additional prepayments as
servers are commissioned.
Character.AI is a neural language model chatbot application that
generates human-like text responses and participates in contextual
conversation.
“We are happy to support Character.AI with our first H100
deployment and look forward to supporting their trajectory toward
immense growth within the AI market,” said Applied Digital CEO and
Chairman, Wes Cummins. “This milestone serves as a strong
validation of Applied Digital’s mission of providing cutting-edge
solutions for key players in the AI field through our cloud
service.”
“The Applied Digital team has been exceptional to work with, and
we’re looking forward to growing this partnership into the future,”
said Noam Shazeer, CEO of Character.AI.
Applied Digital’s next-generation datacenters are ideal for
hosting HPC applications on-premises. This solution, architected
with Supermicro optimized AI servers, provides high compute power
at a lower cost to replenish the power density needed for AI/ML
workloads.
“We are happy to be working with the Applied Digital team in
providing Character.AI a scalable AI Infrastructure designed for
optimal performance with green computing efficiency,” said Charles
Liang, president, and CEO of Supermicro. “We look forward to
further collaboration to deliver first-to-market innovation for the
AI market.”
About Applied Digital Applied Digital (Nasdaq:
APLD) designs, develops and operates next-generation datacenters
across North America to provide digital infrastructure solutions to
the rapidly growing high-performance computing (HPC) industry. Find
more information at www.applieddigital.com. Follow us on Twitter at
@APLDdigital.
About Character.AI
Founded in 2021 by AI pioneers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De
Freitas, Character.AI is a conversational artificial intelligence
platform that uses large language models, deep learning algorithms
that can recognize, summarize, translate, predict, and generate
text and other content, to provide individuals with a personalized
artificial intelligence experience. The platform lets anyone create
and engage with Characters, allowing users to build their own,
personalized use cases and share them with others. For more
information, visit: https://beta.character.ai/
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