Crusoe and Thinking Machines Lab Set $65 Million Managed Inference Agreement
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Crusoe and Thinking Machines Lab described an annual agreement to run production inference workloads for Thinking Machines Lab’s open models on Crusoe Cloud. The companies said the arrangement is intended to support production workloads for the lab’s models.
The agreement is set at $65 million annually. Through Crusoe Managed Inference, the lab plans to serve production workloads, including Inkling models, GLM 5.2 and 5.3, and fine-tuned variants.
The deployment is described as a Tailored Deployment using dedicated, benchmarked, SLA-backed endpoints. Crusoe will connect the work to NVIDIA HGX B200 systems via NVIDIA Quantum-2 and NVIDIA InfiniBand networking.
Crusoe will run and support the cluster directly as the Tailored Deployment, and the companies said they are looking to expand into batch inference for large-scale synthetic data generation. Myle Ott, ML Infra Lead at Thinking Machines Lab, said, “Crusoe Managed Inference took us from evaluation to production quickly and met the standards we hold our own systems to, giving us the scale and economics to reinvest in the research at the core of what we do,” said Myle Ott. Erwan Menard, SVP, Product Management of Crusoe Cloud, said, “Thinking Machines Lab has a very sophisticated engineering team that expects partners to meet their high bar as they grow,” said Erwan Menard, SVP, Product Management of Crusoe Cloud. “Our team of leading AI engineers built Crusoe Managed Inference to deliver cost-efficient, reliable infrastructure, inference, and model lifecycle tooling as-a-service, so innovative companies can run their favorite models in production at scale, relying on our expertise.”
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