Neocloud thinks AI agents - not meatbags - will be its main customers
Quake AI is developing APIs to let autonomous agents access its services more efficiently
Neocloud provider Quake AI expects its customers to be predominantly AI agents rather than human users, according to its chief financial officer Mike Massey. The company was formed after Rumble Inc acquired Northern Data, which it then rebranded as RUM Group. Quake AI operates a 22,000 GPU estate, making it a neocloud - specialized infrastructure for AI workloads.
While other neoclouds build a full range of services around their GPU farms, Quake AI aims to make its infrastructure discoverable to AI agents, which may soon traverse the internet on behalf of their owners. Agents differ from humans in that they interact with APIs and information, not vision. Quake AI believes that agents will want highly discoverable and data-driven platforms, with services like model-as-a-service, dashboards, and one-click settings being orthogonal to what agents want.
They desire homogeneous compute that understands their data and performance expectations, and to consume it as a utility. The company's CEO John Hoffman compared AI agents to an AI developed to navigate the internet, which could retrieve pizza orders from DoorDash's website without human intervention. Hoffman argues that this approach would require a fraction of the compute compared to traditional methods, and that embracing the concept of agents interacting with data and APIs is crucial for the neocloud industry's success.
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