BUZZ HPC joins Bell Canada and Cohere to build Canada’s sovereign AI infrastructure platform

Hive Digital Technologies’ subsidiary BUZZ HPC CEO Craig Tavares joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss a landmark partnership with Bell Canada and Cohere that aims to establish one of Canada's most significant sovereign artificial intelligence infrastructure platforms. Tavares explained that the collaboration combines Bell AI Fabric’s national connectivity and data centre network, Cohere’s enterprise-grade large language models and AI software, and BUZZ HPC’s NVIDIA-powered GPU cloud infrastructure into a fully integrated Canadian AI ecosystem designed for enterprise and government customers. As part of the agreement, BUZZ HPC will deploy its sovereign AI cloud and GPU cluster infrastructure at Bell’s purpose-built AI facility in Merritt, British Columbia. The high-performance computing platform will provide the processing power required to support Cohere’s AI models and enterprise solutions while ensuring data remains within Canadian borders. Tavares noted that the par...