RUM Group Inc. Class A Common Stock Canaccord Genuity's 46th Annual Growth Conference
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- Rum Group is a holding company combining Rumble video platform and Quake AI, the latter formed after acquiring Northern Data in June 2023.
- Rumble video has over 50 million monthly active users and operates its own CDN and data centers due to its free speech platform history.
- Quake AI operates 22,000 Hopper generation GPUs primarily in Europe with 50+ customers across various AI workloads.
- Quake AI has 250MW of unmonetized grid-connected power capacity expected to be monetized by 2027, representing a $3 billion plus revenue run rate opportunity at current rates.
- Utilization of the GPU estate improved from below 20% in mid-2022 to over 83% in the first half of 2023 after new management focused on execution.
- The largest deal in company history was a $270 million multi-year contract with Together AI for Nvidia B300 GPUs, demonstrating technology leadership.
- The 250MW capacity includes a marquee 180MW site in Atlanta, Georgia, with all permits and infrastructure in place, plus smaller facilities in Pittsburgh and Europe (Sweden and Norway).
- Current AI compute as a service pricing is $6-7 million per megawatt per year for Hopper generation GPUs, with Blackwell generation trading around $11 million per megawatt per year, and Vera Rubin generation expected to command a premium.
- Rum Group is focused on AI compute as a service (GPU as a service) rather than power in shell business models.
- Tether owns nearly 50% of Rum Group and is a strategic partner providing capital and network advantages.
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Deal. Yeah. Let's do it.
Good to meet everybody. Mike Massey. I am the CFO of RUM Group, which is a combination of what used to be known as Rumble, as well as our Quake AI brand that does AI compute as a service. Speaking of the two businesses, we have Rumble Video, which we were known for previously. Folks know it's a video platform, 50 million-plus monthly active users. The history of it is a free speech platform. As a part of that, it had to build all of its own rails. It couldn't use AWS, couldn't use GCP to host its servers, et cetera. It built its own CDN, it built its own data centers, et cetera. As a part of that, we also offered a cloud service.
Just last year, we acquired a company called Northern Data, which was a former Bitcoin miner that then became an HPC/AI compute as a service company. We just closed that transaction in mid-June. As a part of that, we took the Rumble Cloud, the data centers, the CDN, the low latency, et cetera. We combined that with the GPU as a service from Northern Data, and we formed the brand of Quake AI. In addition, we still have our existing Rumble video platform, and RUM Group is the holding company. There are two separate businesses that operate autonomously underneath them. There are strategic synergies between them. For example, we've started to explore with the customers of both Rumble Cloud and Northern Data. There is a lot of interest in our video data for purposes of AI training.
We've gotten multiple outreach on that from robotics companies that want to be able to use and leverage some of that video data, especially that is spatial, temporal, et cetera. As we look at moving forward, we're really focused on, and the majority of the financial opportunity is really going to come from Quake AI. I'll talk about that in a bit and tell you about what size opportunity and why we're so excited about it. One footnote to the story, very important strategic partner of ours, owns almost 50% of the combined company, is Tether. Tether is the world's largest stablecoin company, extremely profitable, also makes strategic investments. We are extremely well-aligned with them. We are one of their largest investments, and we think this unlocks for us both a network of and access to technology that's a meaningful differentiator for us. Okay. Quake, let me give you the speaker notes version of this. 22,000 existing Hopper generation GPUs running inside of primarily European estate.
It has a diverse set of workloads, so it is not just one hyperscaler. We have 50-plus end users and customers going from inference to training to pre-training to QLoRA, if folks know some of those workloads. Most importantly to the story, if there is one thing I want you to remember out of this, we have 250 megawatts of unmonetized grid-connected power in 2027. I will talk to you about why we have that, because the first question that I often get is, "How do you have that?" Because it has been sold out, right? I will tell you about the journey of why we have it and why we are so excited about the opportunity.
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