Crypto Miner Hive Blockchain Touts Privacy of AI Models Running on Its GPUs

Bitcoin madenciliği firması Hive Blockchain (HIVE), Cuma günü analistlerle yaptığı bir kazanç görüşmesinde OpenAI’nin ChatGPT’si gibi rakiplerine kıyasla daha iyi mahremiyet öne sürerek müşterilerinin veri merkezlerinde büyük dilli AI modellerini eğitmesine izin vermeyi amaçlıyor.

“Şirketler artık hassas müşteri verilerini OpenAI gibi herkese açık bir LLM [geniş dil modeli] olan bir şirkete yüklemek istemediklerinin farkındalar. Hive Cloud aracılığıyla Hive’da sunmayı arzuladığımız şey, şirketlerin bir hizmete sahip olabileceği gizliliktir. madencilik firmasının CEO’su ve Başkanı Aydın Kılıç, “Anlaşmanın yürürlükte olması, verilerinin ve gizliliğinin mülkiyeti ve hala AI [yapay zeka] hesaplama iş yüklerini GPU bankamızda [grafik işleme birimleri] çalıştırıyor” dedi.

Hive’ın Nasdaq’taki hisseleri Cuma günü yaklaşık %2 değer kazandı.

Miners have been increasingly pivoting to AI as mining economics have interfered with their profitability, with some facing bankruptcies, while the AI sector sees a boom in interest from investors. However, it is yet to be determined whether miners can compete with big tech firms such as Google and Amazon Web Services who benefit from both economies of scale and decades of experience running high-quality customer-facing data centers.

Large language models understand and generate human language using probabilistic calculations. They are often trained on graphics processing units, a type of electronic circuit made up of semiconductors that was originally used for image processing, but has been found to be good at running AI loads.

Hive has a fleet of 38,000 GPUs from the days when it mined ethereum. Some of those it has directed to mining altcoins, while others are available to rent as a service or deployed in its cloud offering.

The firm expects a run-rate of $1 million annually for its GPUs, it said on the earnings call. Already “500 GPU cards generated $230,000 revenue this quarter,” said the firm’s Chairman, Frank Holmes, in a press release discussing the annual and quarterly earnings. Hive’s fiscal year ended on March 31, 2023.