SAN FRANCISCO, February 20, 2025 — AI acceleration cloud complany Collectively AI introduced a $305 million Sequence B funding led by Common Catalyst and co-led by Prosperity7.
The spherical noticed participation from institutional and strategic buyers together with Salesforce Ventures, DAMAC Capital, NVIDIA, Kleiner Perkins, March Capital, Emergence Capital, Lux Capital, SE Ventures, Greycroft, Coatue, Definition, Cadenza Ventures, Lengthy Journey Ventures, Courageous Capital, Scott Banister, and expertise pioneer John Chambers.
The funding spherical, which values the corporate at $3.3 billion, arrives as Collectively AI unveils plans for an unprecedented growth of its AI Acceleration Cloud, with plans for big deployment of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. This strategic funding will additional speed up Collectively AI’s place because the main end-to-end platform for constructing with open supply fashions. Collectively AI’s enterprise-grade inference and fine-tuning capabilities have already remodeled how over 450,000 AI builders, AI-native firms, and international enterprises like Salesforce, Zoom, SK Telecom, Hedra, Cognition, Zomato, Krea, Cartesia, and The Washington Publish construct trendy AI purposes.
“Vipul and group have constructed an unbelievable tech platform and enterprise, rising as a dominant participant in AI infrastructure in lower than two years. I used to be launched to them once I invested of their first angel spherical and have witnessed firsthand the evolution of a product that, at present, many Fortune 100 purchasers use to coach, finetune, and run inference on fashions at scale.” stated Marc Bhargava, managing director at Common Catalyst. “Collectively AI’s mission to be the total stack AI cloud is really inspiring, and Common Catalyst brings the go-to-market experience and ambition to supercharge this purpose.”
Open supply fashions like DeepSeek-R1 and Meta’s Llama have emerged as formidable options to proprietary options, marking a decisive shift within the AI panorama. Collectively AI has established itself because the definitive platform powering this transformation for builders, AI-native firms, and international enterprises to leverage open supply AI with unmatched pace and effectivity. Collectively AI delivers the quickest DeepSeek-R1 and Llama inference at manufacturing scale by its safe, non-public infrastructure and analysis improvements.
“AI is remodeling each business, creating unprecedented efficiencies and enabling totally new courses of merchandise. We have now constructed a cloud firm for this AI-first world — combining state-of-the-art open supply fashions and excessive efficiency infrastructure, with frontier analysis in AI effectivity and scalability,” stated Collectively AI CEO Vipul Ved Prakash. “Our AI Acceleration Cloud uniquely gives organizations with the efficiency, safety, and performance required to coach frontier fashions and construct production-scale AI purposes with unbelievable price effectivity. With this funding, we are going to speed up our mission to make open supply AI accessible for AI builders and clients globally.”
Collectively AI‘s platform uniquely spans all the AI lifecycle, delivering enterprise-grade inference options; coaching and fine-tuning for frontier foundational fashions; agentic workflows with built-in code interpretation; and artificial information technology. It allows organizations to construct full AI purposes with the efficiency, safety, accuracy, and mannequin possession that enterprises demand. Supporting over 200 open supply fashions throughout all modalities — chat, picture, audio, imaginative and prescient, code, and embeddings — the platform is powered by Collectively AI’s proprietary Inference engine and constructed on analysis improvements together with FlashAttention-3 kernels and superior quantization strategies. It delivers 2-3x quicker inference than at present’s hyperscaler options.
The corporate continues to reshape the AI infrastructure panorama with 200 MW of secured energy capability and is deploying optimized clusters of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs throughout a number of information facilities in North America. Collectively AI’s partnership with Hypertec to co-build a cluster of 36,000 NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 GPUs additional cements its place on the forefront of AI Cloud suppliers. On the coronary heart of this infrastructure lies the Collectively Kernel Assortment, a breakthrough in AI system optimization developed below the management of Chief Scientist Tri Dao, creator of FlashAttention. This proprietary expertise stack delivers 24% quicker coaching operations whereas considerably lowering prices for patrons like Pika Labs.
“Latest developments in open supply AI illustrate the significance of Collectively AI’s work in making entry to fashions like these safe, accessible, and highly effective for organizations right here within the U.S. and all over the world,” stated Prosperity7 Ventures Managing Director Abhishek Shukla. “Collectively AI’s potential to do that whereas accelerating the method, rising efficiencies and lowering prices makes Collectively AI an distinctive useful resource for even giant, international companies.”
Collectively AI’s analysis lab continues to pioneer breakthrough strategies on the intersection of AI and programs analysis, with open supply contributions like Combination of Brokers, Medusa, Sequoia, Hyena, and Mamba driving innovation throughout the business.
The corporate’s management place has been strengthened by milestone achievements at a rare tempo. In 2024 alone, Collectively AI grew its person base to over 450,000 AI builders, and has collaborated with Dell, Hypertec, NVIDIA and Meta. It deployed DeepSeek fashions in North American information facilities with full opt-out privateness controls, launched the Collectively Enterprise Platform and AWS Market availability, and partnered with Cartesia to allow ultra-low latency voice AI by Sonic mannequin integration. Collectively AI just lately acquired CodeSandbox with plans to combine its capabilities instantly into Collectively AI for built-in code interpretation – an business first. The corporate additionally strengthened its management group with key hires, together with go-to-market veteran Kai Mak as CRO, and analysis pioneer James Zou.
