NVIDIA has acquired a startup that helps AI developers find the best price/quality accelerator access from cloud providers. According to the CRN portal, this is the fourth notable purchase of NVIDIA since the beginning of the year. An NVIDIA representative confirmed that the deal to acquire Brev.dev had indeed taken place, but did not disclose the amount and terms of the deal.
Brev.dev provides a platform for creating, training and deploying AI models in the cloud. The goal of Brev.dev, according to the startup itself, is to find the simplest way to use accelerators for developers of AI and machine learning systems. The collaboration with NVIDIA will ensure that this mission is achieved by combining the highest performance hardware possible with the most advanced software.
On the Brev.dev website, NVIDIA, Intel and AWS are named as the official partners of the startup. It also says that the platform serves as a single interface for the interaction of AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Fluidstack and other clouds with AI accelerators. This allows developers to search for suitable instances based on their price and availability. While NVIDIA has been supplying GPUs and AI accelerators to cloud providers for more than a decade, the company has been focused on expanding its cloud infrastructure business in recent years.
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Last year, the company launched the DGX Cloud service, which is deployed in the cloud infrastructure of other providers and on its own facilities and AI supercomputers. Earlier this year, NVIDIA acquired two more startups to develop DGX Cloud capabilities. At the end of April, the company announced the acquisition of the Israeli startup Run:ai, which deals with solutions for orchestrating AI infrastructures. It is planned to be integrated into DGX Cloud, as well as with DGX and HGX servers. According to reports, the purchase of Run:ai cost $700 million.
Almost simultaneously with Run:ai, the company acquired another Israeli startup, Deci, which offers software capable of accelerating the inference of AI models on any hardware while maintaining data accuracy. The deal was rumored to be valued at approximately $300 million. Finally, a month ago, NVIDIA bought the Californian startup Shoreline.io, founded by a former AWS manager – the company develops software to automatically fix problems in data center infrastructure. According to some reports, the Shoreline team joined DGX Cloud, and the purchase cost $100 million.