APLD - Applied Digital Secures Contract with AI Customer Together AI | Benzinga
• Together AI will utilize Applied Digital's dynamic computing ecosystem, featuring H100 GPUs and NVLink technology.
• Applied Digital's robust infrastructure aligns with Together AI's commitment to innovation, seeking to meet the surging demands of AI and HPC markets.
DALLAS, March 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 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 onboarding of another AI customer, Together AI. Applied Digital received a contract prepayment of $18 million as part of the $75 million contract, in connection with which it has fully onboarded one compute cluster of GPUs and has provided access to its second cluster.
Together AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence company contributing to leading open-source research, models, and datasets to advance the frontier of AI. The company's decentralized cloud services empower developers and researchers at organizations of all sizes to train, fine-tune, and deploy generative AI models.
Together AI will be running on Applied Digital's dynamic computing ecosystem, custom-built to meet the rigors of AI's demanding tasks and data-rich optimizations. The structure boasts H100 GPUs and is seamlessly interconnected via high-speed InfiniBand fabric, delivering an aggregated bandwidth of 3.2 Tbps. The communication between the GPUs will be enhanced by NVIDIA's NVLink technology, adhering to an optimized ...