HIVE Digital Technologies reports older Nvidia A40 GPUs in Paraguay matched H100 chip performance for AI model training, lifting its stock.
HIVE Digital Technologies said its Nvidia A40 graphics processors in Paraguay delivered performance comparable to Nvidia’s flagship H100 chips for large-language-model pretraining. The research, conducted with Columbia University, involved training models with up to 1.4 billion parameters over two months of code optimization.
The study highlights software optimization’s role in AI computing efficiency, as the A40 GPUs, located over 5,000 miles from the research team in New York, matched newer hardware. Findings were submitted to the NeurIPS conference, a leading AI research event.
HIVE’s shares gained following the announcement, underscoring investor interest in cost-effective AI infrastructure solutions. The company plans a 100-MW AI and high-performance computing campus in Paraguay.