Odaily Planet Daily News Macquarie has given "outperform" ratings to several Bitcoin mining stocks, including MARA, Riot Platforms, Core Scientific, CleanSpark and Cipher Mining, citing the companies' increasing shift from specific crypto businesses to artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC) models. In recent years, Bitcoin miners have increasingly diversified their businesses from pure crypto mining to hosting infrastructure for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. Macquarie analysts Paul Golding and Emma Liang said this trend accelerated after Bitcoin's fourth halving event in April. "Some miners see their unprecedented access to power... as an opportunity to move into non-crypto related hosting," analysts wrote in a note late Tuesday. "Others see it as a distraction from accumulating Bitcoin on their balance sheets... But in most cases, growth in mining capacity, and/or land/GPU acquisitions for HPC/AI, is being achieved through the issuance of dilutive equity," the analysts wrote in a note late Tuesday. Macquarie believes that several miners will benefit greatly in the long term as the shift to high-performance computing accelerates. Analysts also noted that while it is still early days for operating AI cloud products at Bitcoin miners' facilities, these companies have the potential to play a significant role in the AI ​​computing market. (The Block)