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Leonardo AI partners with io.net to expand its GPU capacity.
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The partnership aims to enhance creators’ capabilities in generative AI.
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Leonardo AI now has more than 300k verified GPUs and 37k cluster-ready GPUs from io.net.
Decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) io.net announced an expansion of its collaboration with Leonardo AI to support its growing content production network. The strategic partnership will see io.net provide enterprise-grade L40S GPUs to enhance Leonardo’s computational capacity and increase the scalability of the platform. The expansion of the GPU capacity aims to meet the increasing demand as Leonardo faces rapid user growth on its generative AI content production platform.
“io.net has proven to be an invaluable partner in providing the compute Leonardo AI needs to scale to keep pace with our rapid growth,” said Leonardo AI Co-Founder and CFO Chris Gillis following the partnership.
Leonardo AI provides customers with enterprise-grade capabilities in the AI field, allowing creative teams to generate visual assets in real-time. Additionally, users can leverage private cloud storage and access enterprise APIs to easily build infrastructure on top of Leonardo’s production platform. With millions of users joining the platform, Leonardo AI turned to io.net’s GPU cloud storage to enhance users’ capabilities and scale their platform.
This follows a previous partnership where io.net provided A100 GPUs to Leonardo AI, enabling visual creators to generate production-quality assets on demand. The latest strategic expansion will add a batch of NVIDIA L40S models, designed for high-performance generative AI and large language model (LLM) inference.
Apart from improving capabilities and scalability, Gillis believes the expansion will also positively impact the adoption of its platform further. Speaking on the subject, Gillis stated:“Leveraging these L40S GPUs from io.net will allow our platform to serve our customers faster than ever using best-in-class technology that has been optimized for AI inferencing. With the support of io.net, we look forward to onboarding millions of users, confident that we have the compute capacity we need, even during periods of peak demand.”
A Partnership Set To Empower Millions of Creators
io.net allows companies and individuals needing huge computing resources to deploy and manage decentralized GPU clusters from distributed sources. Working like an internet of GPUs, companies such as Leonardo AI can leverage the GPUs designed for low latency, high processing demand use cases like AI/ML ops and cloud gaming.
Specifically designed for AI companies, io.net provides similar services to traditional cloud computing companies but with better flexibility and more cost-effectiveness. The ability to scale linearly in line with demand ensures that startups always have the compute they require and can grow rapidly without users experiencing service degradation.
The partnership with Leonardo AI will allow the company to maintain its rapid growth rates while ensuring it continues serving billions of high-quality visual assets to millions of businesses and consumers. Additionally, customers on Leonardo will continue to enjoy service reliability and speed despite millions more joining the platform.
Pushing the Limits of Generative AI
The goal of Leonardo AI is to provide “the normal creator” with a production-ready platform for turning their ideas into enterprise-grade visual assets. The platform boasts of its speed, style consistency, and individual control that it offers creators to make this a reality. Creators can generate images in any chosen aesthetic in seconds with simple prompts, create videos, sketch with AI, and custom-train models with their own datasets.
The recent launch of its Phoenix platform, a foundational model that eases creation using generative AI, has played a huge role in the growth of the platform. The model “takes creator control to the next level”, providing them with a set toolkit including prompt adherence, coherent, accurate text in images and the ability to generate production-ready assets in one shot.
The partnership with io.net will further improve the production-ready capabilities with the supply of new GPUs expected to enhance the adoption of Leonardo AI. Additionally, the partnership will highlight the monetization and distribution opportunities that exist for compute suppliers on io.net. Currently, over 300,000 verified GPUs and 37,000 cluster-ready GPUs will be available to Leonardo AI users via the io.net Cloud.
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