Market landscapes / Model Serving & Compute
LLM & Model Inference Serving companies
Running models in production, and serving them at speed and scale. Inference is where the cost of AI lands once something is actually live, so every dollar spent here gets looked at closely. 42 companies, 7 of them already acquired.
Updated 12 October 2026
42 companies
7 acquired
21 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 mapGPU Cloud & Compute Rental 44AI Compute Hardware: Chips & Networking 33Inference Optimization & Compilers 25Model Gateways & Routing 23GPU Orchestration & Cluster Management 20AI Data Centre & Power Infrastructure 14
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