Market landscapes / Model Serving & Compute
GPU Cloud & Compute Rental companies
Renting GPU capacity, from the large specialist clouds down to the brokers and marketplaces. 38 of the 44 are hiring, one of the highest rates on these maps. Only 2 have been acquired, which is unsurprising given what it costs to build one of these in the first place.
Updated 12 October 2026
44 companies
2 acquired
38 hiring now
The rest of the Model Serving & Compute landscape
The full map, including the sub-sectors too small to list separately.
The whole Model Serving & Compute mapLLM & Model Inference Serving 42AI Compute Hardware: Chips & Networking 33Inference Optimization & Compilers 25Model Gateways & Routing 23GPU Orchestration & Cluster Management 20AI Data Centre & Power Infrastructure 14
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