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<ul><li>CoreWeave is expecting to end 2024 with $2B in revenue, up 330% YoY.</li><li>The total value of CoreWeave's booked contracts has surged to $17B, with $10B of that from a new deal to sell compute.</li><li>CoreWeave has gone from a 1.8x lead over Lambda Labs to a 4.3x lead as scale begets scale.</li></ul>

CoreWeave is expecting to end 2024 with $2B in revenue, up 330% YoY.The total value of CoreWeave's booked contracts has surged to $17B, with $10B of that from a new deal to sell compute.CoreWeave has gone from a 1.8x lead over Lambda Labs to a 4.3x lead as scale begets scale.

<ul><li>Perplexity plans to raise at an $8-9B valuation, up from $3B at the time of its August Series C.</li><li>Perplexity's upside case lies in being a product company with more degrees of freedom than either Google or OpenAI.</li><li>Perplexity focuses on the most complex queries (10-11 words), monetizing them at a higher ARPC through prosumer subscriptions ($20/month), enterprise seats ($40/seat/month), and premium-priced ads ($50 CPM to Facebook's ~$14).</li></ul>

Perplexity plans to raise at an $8-9B valuation, up from $3B at the time of its August Series C.Perplexity's upside case lies in being a product company with more degrees of freedom than either Google or OpenAI.Perplexity focuses on the most complex queries (10-11 words), monetizing them at a higher ARPC through prosumer subscriptions ($20/month), enterprise seats ($40/seat/month), and premium-priced ads ($50 CPM to Facebook's ~$14).

<ul><li>The MLOps landscape has evolved from targeting researchers who preferred simple Python APIs and quick setup to serving DevOps professionals who need enterprise-grade telemetry, monitoring and deployment tools that can handle high-volume production workloads.</li><li>LLM deployment differs fundamentally from traditional software deployment because models are massive files (often 10-20GB) that must be loaded across CPU and GPU memory, creating new technical challenges around memory management, version control, and continuous deployment that existing DevOps tools weren't built to handle.</li><li>Building on microservices and serverless, compound AI systems merge together multiple custom AI models, LLMs and diffusion models with databases and external APIs—spawning a new generation of tools like Outerport and Modal ($32M raised) that let developers automatically deploy and run multi-LLM systems across CPU/GPU architectures without worrying about infrastructure.</li></ul>

The MLOps landscape has evolved from targeting researchers who preferred simple Python APIs and quick setup to serving DevOps professionals who need enterprise-grade telemetry, monitoring and deployment tools that can handle high-volume production workloads.LLM deployment differs fundamentally from traditional software deployment because models are massive files (often 10-20GB) that must be loaded across CPU and GPU memory, creating new technical challenges around memory management, version control, and continuous deployment that existing DevOps tools weren't built to handle.Building on microservices and serverless, compound AI systems merge together multiple custom AI models, LLMs and diffusion models with databases and external APIs—spawning a new generation of tools like Outerport and Modal ($32M raised) that let developers automatically deploy and run multi-LLM systems across CPU/GPU architectures without worrying about infrastructure.

Towaki Takikawa, CEO And co-founder Of Outerport, On The Rise Of DevOps For LLMs

<ul><li>Claude 3.5 Sonnet has blown the doors open for Anthropic's API business, growing 5x this year to date to $664M ARR.</li><li>OpenAI's ChatGPT continues to dominate, growing a Sacra-estimated 2.5x this year to date to $2.9B ARR.</li><li>OpenAI's 4x YoY growth to $4B matches and exceeds Meta, Google & AWS’s.</li></ul>

Claude 3.5 Sonnet has blown the doors open for Anthropic's API business, growing 5x this year to date to $664M ARR.OpenAI's ChatGPT continues to dominate, growing a Sacra-estimated 2.5x this year to date to $2.9B ARR.OpenAI's 4x YoY growth to $4B matches and exceeds Meta, Google & AWS’s.

<ul><li>GPU clouds CoreWeave, Lambda Labs, and Together AI—three of the fastest-growing companies in generative AI, each up 1,000%+ year-over-year.</li><li>CoreWeave was Nvidia’s 7th biggest customer in 2023 at 4.5% of total revenue, putting them among Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Tesla as one of the biggest global GPU buyers.</li><li>Taxing every layer of the AI software stack, the cloud GPU category has experienced hypergrowth with Sacra estimating that CoreWeave generated $465M of revenue in 2023, up 1,760% year-over-year, Lambda Labs at $250M in 2023, up 1,150%, and Together AI at $44M, up 2,095% year-over-year.</li></ul>

GPU clouds CoreWeave, Lambda Labs, and Together AI—three of the fastest-growing companies in generative AI, each up 1,000%+ year-over-year.CoreWeave was Nvidia’s 7th biggest customer in 2023 at 4.5% of total revenue, putting them among Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Tesla as one of the biggest global GPU buyers.Taxing every layer of the AI software stack, the cloud GPU category has experienced hypergrowth with Sacra estimating that CoreWeave generated $465M of revenue in 2023, up 1,760% year-over-year, Lambda Labs at $250M in 2023, up 1,150%, and Together AI at $44M, up 2,095% year-over-year.

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CoreWeave, Inc. is a specialized cloud infrastructure company that provides high-performance computing resources optimized for workloads such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, visual effects, and batch processing. The company's CoreWeave Cloud Platform consists of proprietary software and cloud services that deliver the automation and efficiency needed to manage complex AI infrastructure at scale. Its platform supports the development and use of ground-breaking models and the delivery of the next generation of AI applications. CoreWeave operates a GPU-first architecture, optimized for training and inference of generative AI models, and also targets scientific and financial computing, as well as real-time 3D rendering needs. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Livingston, New Jersey.

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