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Sovereign AI Compute: Pretraining on an NPU at 170% of an H100, 75% of a B200

TL;DR: NPUs are sold as inference-only chips. VKORE, a hardware-independent acceleration layer, turns them into training hardware too. In our measurements, pretraining throughput on an NPU reached 170% of a single Nvidia H100 and 75% of a single B200 per device, while inference ran 3.8x faster. The…

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  1. 2026-10-13 06:30 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Sovereign AI Compute: Pretraining on an NPU at 170% of an H100, 75% of a B200

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