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AI infrastructure companies: 54 funded since September 27, 2025, updated November 2, 2026
Started September 27, 2026 · Updated November 2, 2026 · Presspool
Presspool has verified 54 AI infrastructure companies that announced a priced round since September 27, 2025. In its latest weekly sample of AI answers, through November 2, 2026, the ones AI apps named or cited most were Lambda (17 of 50 answers), Crusoe (13 of 50 answers) and Together AI (11 of 50 answers). 39 of them announced a round in the last six months, most recently Daytona ($60M, October 20, 2026). Latest rounds: the 50 stated exactly in dollars total $15.07 billion; 3 more in dollars have no exact figure and are left out of totals and rankings.
Companies selling the layers other AI products run on: GPU clouds and neoclouds, inference and model-serving platforms, training data and web data for AI, evaluation, observability and testing for AI, vector and AI-native databases, and infrastructure for AI agents. Each entry is taken from the company's own website and confirmed by an independent source, both linked on the entry. No company pays to be listed.
| Company | What it does | Latest announced financing | Cited in the Machine Relations Index |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crusoe | Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider that builds its own AI factories and runs Crusoe Cloud on top of them. | $3.9 billion, Series F (initial closing) (September 17, 2026) | Cited in 2 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Nscale | Nscale is a full-stack AI cloud platform spanning software, compute and power, from AI training and inference to data centers. | $2 billion, Series C (March 9, 2026) | Cited in 4 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Fireworks AI | Fireworks is a platform where companies train, customize and serve open models, with an inference engine tuned for throughput and latency. | $1.505 billion, Series D (July 16, 2026) | Cited in 10 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Baseten | Baseten is an AI inference company that post-trains and serves customers' models at production scale, with a focus on latency, reliability and cost. | $1.5 billion, Series F (June 22, 2026) | Cited in 2 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Fluidstack | Fluidstack builds and deploys large-scale compute infrastructure for leading AI labs. | $830M, Series A (July 20, 2026) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Together AI | Together AI runs an AI-native cloud: a full-stack platform for inference, fine-tuning and GPU clusters built around open models. | $800 million, Series C (July 1, 2026) | Cited in 13 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Modal | Modal is a cloud built for AI, giving developers primitives for workloads such as low-latency elastic inference. | $355 million, Series C (May 21, 2026) | Cited in 27 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Groq | Groq runs an AI inference cloud, a neocloud serving open models on its own data-center capacity, after licensing its chip technology to Nvidia. | $350 million, Series A (August 17, 2026) | Cited in 1 of 34,788 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Mercor | Mercor organizes human experts to power the AI economy, offering expert work for AI labs, custom evals and the APEX benchmarks of frontier-model performance. | $350M, Series C (October 27, 2025) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Snorkel AI | Snorkel AI builds expert-curated datasets and environments that AI labs, enterprises and government agencies use to train and evaluate models. | $350 million, Series E (September 22, 2026) | Cited in 14 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| TensorWave | TensorWave is an all-AMD AI cloud for high-performance, memory-intensive training and inference workloads. | $350 million, Series B (June 10, 2026) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Exa | Exa offers search over a large index of public web and private information, delivered through APIs built for AI agents. | $250M, Series C (May 20, 2026) | Cited in 1 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| GMI Cloud | GMI Cloud is a neocloud selling NVIDIA GPU clusters, bare metal, and serverless and dedicated inference. | $223 million, Series B (September 30, 2026) | Cited in 158 of 36,708 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| LMArena | Arena runs a public AI ranking and LLM leaderboard and positions itself as an evaluation platform for frontier AI. | $200 million, Series B (October 8, 2026) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| PaleBlueDot AI | PaleBlueDot AI provides global GPU infrastructure and customized compute for AI. | $200 million, Series C (October 1, 2026) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Inferact | Inferact was founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM to grow it as an AI inference engine and make inference cheaper and faster. | $150 million, Seed (January 22, 2026) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| fal | fal is a generative media platform that runs 1,000+ image, video, audio and 3D models through APIs, serverless deployment and GPU compute. | $140 million, Series D (December 9, 2025) | Cited in 2 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| LangChain | LangChain builds a platform for agent engineering, spanning its open-source agent frameworks and the LangSmith platform for testing and improving agents with production data. | $125M, Series B (October 20, 2025) | Cited in 39 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| OpenRouter | OpenRouter provides one OpenAI-compatible API that routes requests across hundreds of AI models from many providers, with fallbacks, cost tracking and enterprise controls. | $113 million, Series B (May 26, 2026) | Cited in 7 of 35,834 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| DeepInfra | DeepInfra runs an inference cloud that serves 150+ open-source models through OpenAI-compatible APIs on GPU infrastructure it owns and operates. | $107 million, Series B (May 4, 2026) | Cited in 9 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Parallel Web Systems | Parallel builds web infrastructure that lets AI systems search, extract, monitor and reason over information on the web. | $100M, Series B (April 29, 2026) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| RadixArk | RadixArk, founded by the creators of the SGLang inference engine, builds open AI infrastructure for inference and reinforcement learning, including managed infrastructure for teams. | $100 million, Seed (May 5, 2026) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Runpod | Runpod is an AI developer cloud where developers build, train, fine-tune, deploy and scale AI workloads. | $100 million, Series A (June 24, 2026) | Cited in 121 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Go.AI | Go.AI, formerly Go Abacus, provides on-premises AI infrastructure, software and hardware, for regulated industries such as banking, healthcare and defense. | $85 million, Series A (September 22, 2026) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Braintrust | Braintrust is an observability and evals platform for AI agents that traces production behavior and lets teams run experiments against datasets before shipping. | $80M, Series B (February 17, 2026) | Cited in 48 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Firecrawl | Firecrawl is a web data API that searches, scrapes and interacts with websites, turning them into clean Markdown or structured data for AI agents. | $75 million, Series B (September 22, 2026) | Cited in 83 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Ollama | Ollama is an API for open models that runs inference locally or in the cloud. | $65 million, Series B (July 9, 2026) | Cited in 1 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Arcade | Arcade is an actions runtime that sits between enterprise AI agents and business systems to authorize, execute and govern every agent action. | $60M, Series A (June 15, 2026) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Daytona | Daytona provides secure, elastic sandbox infrastructure for running AI-generated code, with fast environment creation and stateful operation. | $60M, Series B (October 20, 2026) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Encord | Encord builds data infrastructure for AI teams to manage, curate and annotate multimodal training data, with a focus on physical AI. | $60 million, Series C (February 26, 2026) | Cited in 4 of 35,834 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Mecka | Mecka is the data and deployment layer for physical AI, turning real-world activity into datasets robotics and AI teams train on. | $60 million, Series B (October 7, 2026) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Turba Labs | Turba Labs' AI performance platform optimizes AI infrastructure across hardware and workloads in real time. | $52 million, Seed and Series A (October 6, 2026) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Patronus AI | Patronus AI trains Digital World Models that simulate agent actions in digital workflows to generate simulations frontier models can train and be evaluated on. | $50M, Series B (June 25, 2026) | Cited in 6 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Qdrant | Qdrant is a vector search engine for building high-performance AI retrieval at any scale and under any deployment model. | $50M, Series B (March 12, 2026) | Cited in 24 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Parasail | Parasail is an inference cloud that serves 40+ open and frontier models through one OpenAI-compatible API and tunes deployments for speed, quality and cost. | $32 million, Series A (April 15, 2026) | Cited in 21 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Clockwork.io | Clockwork.io makes software-driven fabrics for GPU clusters that keep AI training and inference running through faults. | $31 million, round type not disclosed (October 5, 2026) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Fiddler AI | Fiddler is an enterprise AI observability and security platform positioned as a control plane for monitoring, evaluating and governing AI agents. | $30M, Series C (January 27, 2026) | Cited in 13 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Halluminate | Halluminate builds benchmarks and RL environments that train frontier AI models on financial-services work. | $30 million, Series A (October 1, 2026) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| KONST | KONST builds AI data centers in Asia and leases GPU compute. | $30 million, Series B (October 9, 2026) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Kernel | Kernel gives web agents cloud browser infrastructure, with isolated Chromium sessions controlled via API or SDK plus live view, replays and telemetry. | $22M, Seed and Series A (combined) (October 9, 2025) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Tensormesh | Tensormesh sells a KV-cache data management platform for AI inference that reuses computed context to cut GPU recompute, latency and cost. | $20 million, Seed extension (May 27, 2026) | Cited in 12 of 35,834 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| hosted·ai | hosted·ai sells GPU-as-a-service software that lets GPU owners and cloud providers run and sell GPU capacity, and operates the packet.ai GPU cloud. | $19M, Seed (March 19, 2026) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| HUD | HUD is a platform for building reinforcement-learning environments that encode domain expertise to train and evaluate models and produce post-training data. | $16M, Series A (June 30, 2026) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Thunder Compute | Thunder Compute sells virtualized cloud GPU instances and GPU sandboxes for AI development and agents. | $13 million, Series A (August 19, 2026) | Cited in 31 of 36,708 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Infino | Infino is search and analytics infrastructure on object storage that answers AI agents' questions. | $7.5 million, Seed (October 6, 2026) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Uvi | Uvi, formerly Naboo, is the reasoning and context layer for enterprise AI agents. | $7.5 million, Seed (October 14, 2026) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Zeroset | Zeroset builds Nebula, the state layer that gives AI agents current state and workflow history. | $5.2 million, Pre-seed (October 6, 2026) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Subconscious | Subconscious is an inference provider for long-running AI agents, built for 200K+ token sessions. | $5.1 million, Pre-seed and seed (September 22, 2026) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Respan | Respan runs an AI gateway and observability platform that routes model calls through one API and traces, monitors and evaluates AI agent runs. | $5 million, Seed (March 18, 2026) | Cited in 18 of 35,834 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Ocular AI | Ocular AI provides research, evals and expert data for AI. | $2 million, Pre-seed (October 5, 2026) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Granite | Granite is a European sovereign cloud for AI agents: compute, storage, GPU and agents in one stack. | €4 million, round type not disclosed (September 28, 2026) | Cited in 0 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Lambda | Lambda is an AI cloud, which it calls the Superintelligence Cloud, that provides GPU supercomputers for training and inference. | over $1.5B, Series E (November 18, 2025) | Cited in 13 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| SiliconFlow | SiliconFlow runs an AI inference cloud that serves and fine-tunes more than 200 language and multimodal models through APIs. | more than 2 billion yuan ($294 million), Series B (June 17, 2026) | Cited in 29 of 36,708 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
| Verda | Verda, formerly DataCrunch, is a full-stack AI cloud company that runs its own data centers, hardware and platform to provide on-demand compute for AI. | $189 million (€163 million), Series B plus additional investment (September 22, 2026) | Cited in 6 of 36,189 Index answers, May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026 |
AI infrastructure startups that raised funding recently
Rounds announced in the six months to November 2, 2026, newest first. Each links the company's record and its sources.
- Daytona: $60M, Series B, announced October 20, 2026, led by FirstMark Growth.
- Uvi: $7.5 million, Seed, announced October 14, 2026, led by CT Innovations.
- KONST: $30 million, Series B, announced October 9, 2026, led by ADATA Technology.
- LMArena: $200 million, Series B, announced October 8, 2026, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures.
- Mecka: $60 million, Series B, announced October 7, 2026, led by Sequoia Capital.
- Infino: $7.5 million, Seed, announced October 6, 2026, led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
- Turba Labs: $52 million, Seed and Series A, announced October 6, 2026, led by Creandum and Cusp Capital.
- Zeroset: $5.2 million, Pre-seed, announced October 6, 2026, led by Gradient and 2048 Ventures.
- Clockwork.io: $31 million, round type not disclosed, announced October 5, 2026, led by Premji Invest, Wing Venture Capital and Seligman Ventures.
- Ocular AI: $2 million, Pre-seed, announced October 5, 2026, led by Drive Capital.
- Halluminate: $30 million, Series A, announced October 1, 2026, led by Oak HC/FT.
- PaleBlueDot AI: $200 million, Series C, announced October 1, 2026, led by ComputeCore.
- GMI Cloud: $223 million, Series B, announced September 30, 2026, led by ARCHIV.
- Granite: €4 million, round type not disclosed, announced September 28, 2026, led by Bifrost Studios.
- Firecrawl: $75 million, Series B, announced September 22, 2026, led by Smash Capital.
- Go.AI: $85 million, Series A, announced September 22, 2026, led by Updata Partners.
- Snorkel AI: $350 million, Series E, announced September 22, 2026, led by Insight Partners and S32.
- Subconscious: $5.1 million, Pre-seed and seed, announced September 22, 2026, led by MassVentures.
- Verda: $189 million (€163 million), Series B plus additional investment, announced September 22, 2026, led by Emergence Capital.
- Crusoe: $3.9 billion, Series F (initial closing), announced September 17, 2026, led by Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital and Valor Equity Partners.
- Thunder Compute: $13 million, Series A, announced August 19, 2026, led by Matrix Partners.
- Groq: $350 million, Series A, announced August 17, 2026, led by Disruptive.
- Fluidstack: $830M, Series A, announced July 20, 2026, led by Situational Awareness.
- Fireworks AI: $1.505 billion, Series D, announced July 16, 2026, led by Atreides Management, Index Ventures and TCV.
- Ollama: $65 million, Series B, announced July 9, 2026, led by Theory Ventures.
- Together AI: $800 million, Series C, announced July 1, 2026, led by Aramco Ventures.
- HUD: $16M, Series A, announced June 30, 2026, led by Standard Capital.
- Patronus AI: $50M, Series B, announced June 25, 2026, led by Greenfield Partners.
- Runpod: $100 million, Series A, announced June 24, 2026, led by Summit Partners.
- Baseten: $1.5 billion, Series F, announced June 22, 2026, led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction, Spark Capital, Sands Capital and Wellington Management.
- SiliconFlow: more than 2 billion yuan ($294 million), Series B, announced June 17, 2026.
- Arcade: $60M, Series A, announced June 15, 2026, led by SYN Ventures.
- TensorWave: $350 million, Series B, announced June 10, 2026, led by Magnetar and AMD Ventures.
- Tensormesh: $20 million, Seed extension, announced May 27, 2026.
- OpenRouter: $113 million, Series B, announced May 26, 2026, led by CapitalG.
- Modal: $355 million, Series C, announced May 21, 2026, led by General Catalyst and Redpoint.
- Exa: $250M, Series C, announced May 20, 2026, led by Andreessen Horowitz.
- RadixArk: $100 million, Seed, announced May 5, 2026, led by Accel and Spark Capital.
- DeepInfra: $107 million, Series B, announced May 4, 2026, led by 500 Global and Georges Harik.
Which of these companies AI names
On November 2, 2026, Presspool asked the 8 questions below on ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews and recorded 50 answers. Not sampled: 2 Google AI Mode answers, 4 Google AI Overviews answers. A company counts when an answer names it or cites its website. Answers vary from run to run, so each count is a dated sample, not a verdict.
| Company | Named or cited in | ChatGPT | Claude | Perplexity | Gemini | Copilot | Google AI Mode | Google AI Overviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crusoe | 13 of 50 answers | 3 of 8 | 3 of 8 | 2 of 8 | 2 of 8 | 2 of 8 | 1 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Nscale | 9 of 50 answers | 3 of 8 | 3 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Fireworks AI | 10 of 50 answers | 1 of 8 | 2 of 8 | 4 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 1 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Baseten | 9 of 50 answers | 2 of 8 | 3 of 8 | 2 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Fluidstack | 6 of 50 answers | 2 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 1 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Together AI | 11 of 50 answers | 3 of 8 | 2 of 8 | 4 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 1 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Modal | 10 of 50 answers | 3 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 5 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Groq | 10 of 50 answers | 2 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 2 of 8 | 3 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 1 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Mercor | 0 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Snorkel AI | 3 of 50 answers | 1 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| TensorWave | 1 of 50 answers | 1 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Exa | 5 of 50 answers | 1 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 1 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| GMI Cloud | 6 of 50 answers | 2 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 2 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| LMArena | 1 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| PaleBlueDot AI | 1 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Inferact | 0 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| fal | 1 of 50 answers | 1 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| LangChain | 10 of 50 answers | 2 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 2 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 1 of 6 | 2 of 4 |
| OpenRouter | 1 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| DeepInfra | 0 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Parallel Web Systems | 5 of 50 answers | 2 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 1 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| RadixArk | 0 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Runpod | 6 of 50 answers | 3 of 8 | 2 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Go.AI | 0 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Braintrust | 7 of 50 answers | 1 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 1 of 6 | 1 of 4 |
| Firecrawl | 8 of 50 answers | 1 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 2 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 2 of 6 | 1 of 4 |
| Ollama | 3 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 1 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Arcade | 0 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Daytona | 5 of 50 answers | 1 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 2 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Encord | 1 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Mecka | 0 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Turba Labs | 0 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Patronus AI | 1 of 50 answers | 1 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Qdrant | 0 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Parasail | 1 of 50 answers | 1 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Clockwork.io | 1 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Fiddler AI | 1 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Halluminate | 0 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| KONST | 0 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Kernel | 2 of 50 answers | 1 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Tensormesh | 0 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| hosted·ai | 2 of 50 answers | 1 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| HUD | 0 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Thunder Compute | 0 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Infino | 0 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Uvi | 0 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Zeroset | 0 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Subconscious | 0 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Respan | 1 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Ocular AI | 0 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Granite | 0 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Lambda | 17 of 50 answers | 3 of 8 | 2 of 8 | 3 of 8 | 4 of 8 | 2 of 8 | 2 of 6 | 1 of 4 |
| SiliconFlow | 5 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 2 of 8 | 1 of 8 | 2 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
| Verda | 0 of 50 answers | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 8 | 0 of 6 | 0 of 4 |
What changed since the week of October 26, 2026
- Patronus AI was named or cited in 1 of 50 answers, after none of 53 the week before.
- Parasail was named or cited in 1 of 50 answers, after none of 53 the week before.
- Fiddler AI was named or cited in 1 of 50 answers, after none of 53 the week before.
- LMArena was named or cited in 1 of 50 answers, after none of 53 the week before.
- fal was named or cited in 1 of 50 answers, after none of 53 the week before.
- Clockwork.io was named or cited in 1 of 50 answers, after none of 53 the week before.
- Encord was named or cited in 1 of 50 answers, after none of 53 the week before.
- Mercor was not named or cited this week, after 3 of 53 answers the week before.
- Thunder Compute was not named or cited this week, after 1 of 53 answers the week before.
- DeepInfra was not named or cited this week, after 2 of 53 answers the week before.
Sources the AI apps cited most for these questions
- openai.com: 8 of 50 answers
- firecrawl.dev: 6 of 50 answers
- github.com: 5 of 50 answers
- langchain.com: 5 of 50 answers
- modal.com: 5 of 50 answers
- newmarketpitch.com: 5 of 50 answers
- siliconflow.com: 5 of 50 answers
- brightdata.com: 4 of 50 answers
- browser-use.com: 4 of 50 answers
- io.net: 4 of 50 answers
- reddit.com: 4 of 50 answers
- runpod.io: 4 of 50 answers
- braintrust.dev: 3 of 50 answers
- crunchbase.com: 3 of 50 answers
- exa.ai: 3 of 50 answers
What counts as AI infrastructure
A company joins this map when its own site describes AI infrastructure as its main product and an independent source confirms it, and it publicly announced a priced funding round in the last 12 months. The table shows each company's most recent announced financing, which can be a later instrument such as convertible notes; the qualifying round is in the data file. Out of scope: companies whose product is an end-user AI application, and companies whose most recent announced round is more than 12 months old. The Machine Relations Index column counts the answers in the Machine Relations Index that cited the company's website; the Index asks a fixed panel of buyer questions about software and services, so it measures how often AI engines already treat the company as a source. Definitions are versioned; this is version 1. Corrections need a public source: see Contact.
Questions this map tracks
- Which companies provide AI infrastructure?
- What are the fastest-growing AI infrastructure startups?
- Which AI infrastructure startups have raised funding recently?
- What are the best GPU cloud providers for AI training?
- What is the best inference platform for deploying open-source models?
- Which companies provide web data for AI agents?
- What are the best LLM evaluation and observability tools?
- What is the best sandbox or browser infrastructure for AI agents?
Changes
- October 19, 2026: 5 companies added from candidate review: Encord, OpenRouter, Respan, Tensormesh, hosted·ai.
- October 19, 2026: Added PaleBlueDot AI, KONST, Granite, Clockwork.io, Turba Labs, Subconscious, Go.AI, Infino, Uvi, Zeroset, Halluminate, Mecka, Ocular AI from the Press Pool funding roster, verified from each company's own site and an independent source, each with a priced round in the window.
- October 9, 2026: Added Groq, cited in AI answers and verified from its own site and an independent source, with a priced Series A (2026-08-17) in the window.
- October 7, 2026: Added DeepInfra and Ollama, cited in AI answers and verified from each company's own site and an independent source, each with a priced round in the window.
- September 30, 2026: Added SiliconFlow, GMI Cloud, Thunder Compute, cited in AI answers and verified from each company's own site and an independent source.
- September 27, 2026: Map started with 30 verified companies.