VMware

Infrastructure

Enterprise virtualisation and private-cloud software sold as VMware Cloud Foundation, with a Private AI capability for running generative AI on a customer's own infrastructure.

Total funding—
Valuation—
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Founded1998
HeadquartersPalo Alto, USA
StatusAcquired
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Product

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

Inside VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA

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ReplicatePrivateVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Replicate do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; Replicate's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOllamaPrivate · $88M raisedVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Ollama do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareModularAcquired ($3.1B deal)VMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Modular Cloud do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; both acquired, so no independent scale on either side.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTogether AIPrivate · $8.3BVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Together Dedicated Container Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareModalPrivate · $466M raisedVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Modal Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNebius GroupPublic · $61.6BVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Serverless AI do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBasetenPrivate · $13BVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Baseten Inference Runtime both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRunPodPrivateVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Serverless do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; RunPod's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHugging FacePrivate · $4.5BVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Inference Endpoints both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCrusoePrivate · $10BVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Crusoe Managed Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLambdaPrivate · $1.5B raisedVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Lambda Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFireworks AIPrivate · $17.5BVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Fireworks Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; ships API service and model API rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareDatabricksPrivate · $190BVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Databricks Model Serving do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareWeights & BiasesAcquiredVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and W&B Serverless Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; both acquired, so no independent scale on either side; ships API service, developer tool and 1 more rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareKakao EnterprisePrivateVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Kubeflow do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; Kakao Enterprise's scale not recorded; ships developer tool and platform rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareFalPrivateVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and fal Serverless do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; Fal's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHuawei CloudPrivateVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and MaaS do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; Huawei Cloud's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCivitaiPrivate · $5.1M raisedVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Civitai API do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; ships API service and platform rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCoherePrivate · $7BVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Model Vault do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareElasticPublic · $10.2BVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Elastic Inference Service do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; ships agent platform, application and 2 more rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareNAVER CloudPrivateVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and ML expert Platform do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; NAVER Cloud's scale not recorded; ships API service, application and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareLM StudioPrivateVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and LM Studio do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; LM Studio's scale not recorded; ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCactus ComputePrivateVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Cactus both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHeliconeAcquiredVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Helicone AI Gateway do comparable work on model hosting; both acquired, so no independent scale on either side; ships API service and platform rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareQualcommPublic · $174.9BVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Qualcomm AI Hub both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; ships developer tool, hardware and 1 more rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareDecartPrivate · $4BVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Decart Optimization Stack both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKuaishouPublic · $18.6BVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Vanchin do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; ships application, developer tool and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareTencentPublic · $510.1BVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Tencent Cloud HAI do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMeta PlatformsPublic · $1.5TVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Meta Model API do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; ships AI agent, agent platform and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAlibabaPublic · $273.4BVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Alibaba Cloud Elastic GPU Service both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDell TechnologiesPublic · $360.7BVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Dell Enterprise Hub do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAMDPublic · $785.1BVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and AMD Enterprise AI Reference Stack do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHuaweiPrivateVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and MindIE do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; Huawei's scale not recorded; ships developer tool and hardware rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareNVIDIAPublic · $5.1TVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and NVIDIA DGX Cloud both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareVercelPrivate · $9.3BVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Vercel AI Gateway do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; ships AI agent, API service and 2 more rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareGitLabPublic · $8.3BVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and GitLab Duo Agent Platform Self-Hosted do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; ships AI agent, agent platform and 3 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareYandexPublicVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Yandex DataSphere do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; Yandex's scale not recorded; ships API service, application and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSenseTimePublic · $7.7BVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Elastic Container Platform do comparable work on model hosting; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareUniphorePrivate · $2.5BVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Uniphore Model Layer both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; ships application, data service and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareLabelboxPrivate · $189M raisedVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Recursion both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; ships agent platform, application and 3 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAmazonPublic · $2.8TVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Amazon SageMaker AI do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; ships API service, agent platform and 6 more rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCoreWeavePublic · $48.5BVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and CoreWeave AI Cloud both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNous ResearchPrivate · $70M raisedVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Hermes Cloud do comparable work on model hosting; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareUnslothPrivateVMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services and Unsloth both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; Unsloth's scale not recorded; ships developer tool rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompare

Closest alternatives are pairs a vendor page itself compares. Similar products are matched from what each product does; nothing in that group is asserted as a rivalry.

Sources

Total funding

Checked — none published

VMware was public from 2007 until the Broadcom close on 2023-11-22; cumulative venture funding is not a meaningful or published figure for it.

Valuation

Checked — none published

No standalone valuation post-acquisition; Broadcom folds VMware into its Infrastructure Software segment.

Employees

Not found · 2 Sep 2026

Broadcom's FY2025 10-K gives only a group total (~33,000 across all of Broadcom as of 2025-11-02) and breaks out no VMware figure. Null rather than a parent-wide number.

Founded

Regulatory filing · 28 Jan 2022

FY2022 Form 10-K: "We incorporated in Delaware in 1998."

Revenue

Not found · 2 Sep 2026

Last standalone audited revenue was $13,350,000,000 for the fiscal year ended 2023-02-03. Broadcom's FY2025 10-K folds VMware into the Infrastructure Software segment with no standalone breakout, so there is no current figure and the FY2023 number would be a false current claim.

Status

Regulatory filing · 2 Nov 2025

Broadcom's FY2025 Form 10-K dates the VMware acquisition to 2023-11-22 (XBRL context avgo:VMwareAcquisitionMember). The registrant is now "VMware LLC (formerly VMware, Inc.)".

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