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Lambda

Infrastructure

GPU cloud built for training and inference rather than general computing: on-demand and reserved NVIDIA instances, 1-Click Clusters and full liquid-cooled clusters it calls AI factories, priced by the GPU hour.

Total funding$1.5B

Valuation—

Employees—

Founded2012

HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Lambda Cloud Infrastructure service Sold on its own

  On-demand NVIDIA instances for training, fine-tuning and serving — 1 to 8 GPUs launched in minutes with self-serve access — billed by the minute with no egress charge, alongside the 1-Click Clusters and liquid-cooled superclusters Lambda sells for larger runs.

• Lambda 1-Click Clusters Infrastructure service Sold on its own

  Self-serve GPU clusters from 16 to 2,000+ NVIDIA B200 or H100 GPUs, provisioned without a sales cycle for training, fine-tuning and large inference runs.

• Lambda On-Demand Instances Infrastructure service Sold on its own

  Hourly NVIDIA GPU instances — H100, H200, B200 and A100 — launched in minutes with no egress fees.

• Lambda Inference Model API Sold on its own

  Hosted inference endpoints for open-weight models on Lambda's own GPU fleet, billed per token.

• Lambda Superclusters Infrastructure service

  Rents dedicated large-scale AI training and inference GPU clusters at supercomputer scale.

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RRunPodPrivateCB Insights names RunPod as one of Lambda's top 3 competitors; RunPod's GPU rental (Pods) overlaps Lambda's on-demand instances on buy-ai-compute.4 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeSourced competitorBuy data-centre AI computeCompareNGNebius GroupPublic · $61.6B4 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeNamed in filingBuy data-centre AI computeCompareCCoreWeavePublic · $48.5BCB Insights lists CoreWeave among Lambda's competitors, corroborated by widespread press treating them as the two leading 'neocloud' GPU rivals; CoreWeave AI Cloud overlaps Lambda's buy-ai-compute.3 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeSourced competitorBuy data-centre AI computeCompareTATogether AIPrivate · $8.3BListed among Together AI's specialized GPU-cloud-provider competitors; both products carry buy-ai-compute.4 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeSourced competitorBuy data-centre AI computeCompare

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both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; similar scale (public); ships AI agent, application and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareRRunwayPrivate · $5.3BLambda Inference and Runway API both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (private).1 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare

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Total funding

Press release · 18 Nov 2025

"today announced it has raised over $1.5B in Series E funding, led by TWG Global." Recorded as a floor (a Series E amount, not necessarily the cumulative total); the record's prior not-found note read only the /about page.

Valuation

Checked — none published

No valuation published by the company.

Employees

Not found · 4 Sep 2026

No headcount on the about page.

Founded

Official documentation · 4 Sep 2026

Its own about page: "Lambda was founded in San Francisco in 2012."

Revenue

Checked — none published

Private; no revenue published.

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