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According to IT Home, NVIDIA donated a supercomputer built based on GB300 "Grace Blackwell" servers to the Naval Postgraduate School Foundation, marking the first time the US military has directly deployed NVIDIA's most advanced AI computing platform. The system has been deployed on the campus of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, with the specific scale undisclosed. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stated that artificial intelligence will become an important pillar of the US defense system.
AMD has officially launched its first rack-scale AI system for artificial intelligence, Helios. This is seen as AMD's key product to rival Nvidia's Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin AI systems. It has been adopted by enterprise customers including Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and Oracle, as AMD seeks to mount a more direct challenge to Nvidia in the AI infrastructure market.Microsoft announced it will deploy the AMD Helios system in its Azure data centers, becoming the latest customer to adopt the platform. AMD stated that Helios is expected to begin shipping to customers later this year and will be used to support frontier AI model inference, Azure AI services, and enterprise-level AI applications. Data from market research firm Futurum Group shows that Nvidia currently holds over 95% of the data center GPU market share, while AMD holds approximately 4.5%. Analysts believe that if Helios deployment goes smoothly, AMD has the potential to capture 20%-25% of the market share in the future, corresponding to a potential market space worth hundreds of billions of dollars. (CNBC)
Bitcoin mining company HIVE's subsidiary BUZZ High Performance Computing has signed a three-year sovereign AI cloud infrastructure contract worth approximately $220 million with Bell AI Fabric and Cohere. Under the contract, BUZZ HPC will deploy a cluster containing 2,304 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs at Bell's facility in Merritt, British Columbia.Funding for the Blackwell systems comes from the $115 million convertible note financing completed in April. The deployment is expected to become operational between late 2026 and early 2027, and is projected to add approximately $70 million to the company's current $35 million in annual recurring revenue. Additionally, HIVE has received approval to acquire a 32-megawatt data center in Big Boden, Sweden, and plans to upgrade it to support enterprise-grade AI workloads. (The Block)
Bitcoin mining company HIVE Digital announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, BUZZ High Performance Computing (BUZZ HPC), has entered into a sovereign AI infrastructure partnership with Bell Canada and Cohere. The collaboration will integrate Bell AI Fabric’s data center and network infrastructure, Cohere’s large language models and enterprise-grade AI capabilities, and BUZZ HPC’s computing platform—built on NVIDIA-accelerated GPU cloud and AI factory technologies. BUZZ HPC disclosed that it has signed a three-year GPU cloud contract valued at up to $220 million and will procure GB200 NVL72 rack-scale systems comprising 2,304 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs. This AI cluster will provide compute power for Cohere’s foundational models and enterprise AI applications.
Sharon AI Holdings, a Nasdaq-listed company, announced a six-year strategic computing cooperation agreement with NVIDIA to jointly expand AI infrastructure capabilities in Australia.Under the agreement, the two parties will collaborate to build approximately 72MW of data center computing capacity and deploy infrastructure based on the NVIDIA DSX AI Factory architecture. The plan is to gradually scale up to 40,000 Grace Blackwell GB300 GPUs to meet the computing needs of AI startups, enterprise clients, and research institutions.The cooperation model adopts a structure combining revenue generation with credit support: Sharon AI will be responsible for selling cloud services based on NVIDIA's computing power, while NVIDIA, upon receiving hardware and basic product revenue, will also participate in a share of cloud service revenue, forming a sustainable "usage-driven revenue model."Sharon AI stated that this collaboration will significantly enhance its capital efficiency, enabling it to expand AI infrastructure capabilities without relying on traditional heavy-asset financing and accelerate the deployment of "sovereign AI computing power" in Australia. With this partnership, Sharon AI's total AI factory capacity will increase to 132MW, of which approximately 102MW is already contracted by clients. The company expects to deploy over 55,000 NVIDIA GPUs by mid-2027. (Businesswire)