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BCE Unit Bell Canada, Cohere, Hypertec and BUZZ HPC Enters Deal to "Advance Sovereign AI in Canada"
BCE's (BCE.TO, BCE) Bell Canada unit, along with Cohere, Hypertec and Hive Digital Technologies' (HIVE.V, HIVE) unit BUZZ High Performance Computing (HPC) entered into an AI-infrastructure deal, to develop and deploy "advanced" AI workloads on sovereign Canadian infrastructure, it said on Thursday.The companies plan to build the "conditions needed to conduct the critical R&D needed for AI models" using Canadian infrastructure, with Canadian partners, it said. Bell will provide data-center capacity and connectivity services from its Merritt, British Columbia, facility.BUZZ HPC will deliver the AI-native cloud layer using Hypertec's Canadian-built hardware cluster and NVIDIA accelerated computing to support production-grade AI workloads, it said. Cohere will use Bell AI Fabric infrastructure to operate its foundation models and support secure enterprise-grade AI solutions for government and enterprise customers, it added.Shares of BCE were last seen up $0.085 to $32.995 on the Toronto Stock Exchange.Price: $32.99, Change: $+0.08, Percent Change: +0.24%
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