Applied Digital Corporation, a data center provider, has named AI Cloud Services customer, Character.AI as its first major customer. 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.
Also, 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 Wes Cummins, CEO, and chairman of Applied Digital. “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.”
Applied Digital’s datacenters are designed to host 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.”
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