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Erwan Menard shared thisWe launched our Crusoe inference service 10 months ago, and thanks to partnerships with Thinking Machines Lab, Perplexity, Base44 and many others we turn engineering brilliance into a reliable service enabling the most advanced AI practitioners in the world. “Crusoe Managed Inference took us from evaluation to production quickly and met the standards we hold our own systems to, giving us the scale and economics to reinvest in the research at the core of what we do,” said Myle Ott, ML Infra Lead at Thinking Machines Lab. Thank you Thinking Machines Lab for the trust and let's build! Chase Lochmiller Kyle Sosnowski Omer Landau Roy Shchory Omri Berkovitch Alon Grosman Jay Maloney Joseph Kolko Daniel Auerbach Ron Hansra Chaitanya Kulkarni Sydnee MayersErwan Menard shared thisThinking Machines Lab is running its production workloads on Crusoe Managed Inference. We met the bar they set for their own systems and took them to production fast on a dedicated, SLA-backed Tailored Deployment we run and support. Another strong addition to our fast-growing Managed Inference business. Next, we're working with Thinking Machines Lab on batch inference for synthetic data generation, so the same inference that serves their users also feeds their research. 🔬 Read the announcement → https://lnkd.in/g4stRS-e
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Erwan Menard shared thisReally cool job opportunities on our team at CrusoeErwan Menard shared thisWe are hiring Network and Storage PMs at Crusoe. A unique opportunity to build AI cloud and focus on training and inference worklaods. These roles have massive impact, with direct ownership over how we build networking and storage infrastructure at Crusoe. Principal Storage PM: https://lnkd.in/gAHMCMGX Staff Storage PM: https://lnkd.in/g2wTVvHB Principal Network PM: https://lnkd.in/gz4vkdmV Reach out to me or Monica Garcia
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Erwan Menard shared thisThere is quite a lot of misinformation on AI data centers. Let's look at the facts. Learn about our impact in communities close to our Crusoe AI Factories: https://lnkd.in/eWp32TpVErwan Menard shared this“The data center industry has a marketing issue.” Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller pushes back on growing opposition to the AI buildout, arguing the facilities can bring major jobs and tax revenue to local communities https://bloom.bg/4xuDVMD
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Erwan Menard shared thisThank you VAST Data Renen Hallak Jeff Denworth Alon Horev Shachar Fienblit Jay Sutton Cassidy Agustin Alyssa (McKelvey) Rustmann for the partnership with Crusoe ! Let's build!Erwan Menard shared thisAs Crusoe experienced over 10x storage growth in just a few months, they relied on VAST as the foundation for their file and object storage services. The VAST AI OS provides Crusoe with the flexibility of a software-defined architecture, key supply chain relationships during hardware shortages, and an approach built around AI at the workload level. Hear from Erwan Menard, SVP of Product Management, on how VAST supports Crusoe 🚀
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Erwan Menard shared thisBig day for our customers. More capital support to our journey at Crusoe, as we build a vertically integrated and really special kind of AI Cloud: - In-house expertise and assets in energy, data center, cloud infra and managed AI services to optimize this complex supply chain on behalf of our customers, electrons to tokens; - A unique deployment model with our industry leading track record developing GW-scale campuses, our energy-first approach and our in-house modular AI factory Spark; - Added-value validated by customers: Our Managed AI product line launched 9 months already has >$100M ARR committed, our Crusoe Managed k8s service powers >70% of our IaaS fleet; - Serving the most demanding AI Natives to build the future together: Did you notice our partnership with Perplexity announced earlier this week? Let's build, together 🚀 Oh, and am hiring a VP Product Management to accelerate our growth https://lnkd.in/ehTzhFD6 Chase Lochmiller Cully Cavness Michael Gordon Chris Dolan Matt Field Sig Anderson Jamey Seely Tara Green Nick Sammut Celeste Grebe Kyle Sosnowski Nitin Perumbeti Jay Maloney Sharieff Mansour Ron Hansra Alon Yariv Omer Landau Omar Lari Aditya Shanker Jandro Riverón Ryan Kiskis Suman Debnath Pablo Crespo Andrew Sweatman thanks for the ride!Erwan Menard shared thisToday we're announcing $3.9 billion in Series F funding, co-led by Atreides Management, LP, Mubadala Capital, and Valor Equity Partners alongside significant backing from Founders Fund, GIC, NVIDIA, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Radical Ventures, and TPG. Where we are now: Over $140B total contract value (TCV) across the business. 6+ GW of gross contracted capacity across data centers and cloud. Cloud customer bookings 20x year-over-year. Where this capital is taking us: growth across our AI factories, from large-scale campuses to modular Crusoe Spark units, and the continued innovation of Crusoe Cloud. And today we welcome three new board members: Cloudflare CFO Thomas Seifert, Primary Digital Infrastructure CIO Bill Stein, and Redwood Materials Founder and CEO JB Straubel. They’re adding vision, operational rigor, and domain expertise for where we’re headed. To our team, our customers, and the communities supporting our projects: thank you. Details here: https://lnkd.in/e_KTP3ZJ
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Erwan Menard shared thisReally happy that this partnership is now public. Great alignment of vision between two unique companies, strong commitment to BUILDING together. Check how Perplexity and Crusoe are shaping AI-powered outcomes. Warm thanks to the Perplexity team for the trust and ambition 🙏 Let's build!Erwan Menard shared thisToday we're announcing a multi-year partnership with Perplexity AI to power its AI workloads on Crusoe Cloud. Training and inference are no longer separate problems. The fastest-moving AI companies need one platform that carries a model across its entire lifecycle — from research to production, from the first electron to the last token. That's exactly what this partnership delivers. Perplexity will run its full model lifecycle on Crusoe: training frontier models on dedicated NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 clusters, then serving them in production through Crusoe Managed Inference. At Perplexity's scale, where every millisecond of latency is felt by millions of users, that vertical integration isn't a nice-to-have, it's the product. Perplexity is building the future of how people find answers. We're proud to be the infrastructure making it possible: https://lnkd.in/ebQaKN8v
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Erwan Menard shared thisGreat partnership. Great alignment of visions. Lots of exciting co-building for Perplexity and Crusoe, driving concrete tangible outcomes for Perplexity users. Let’s build!Erwan Menard shared thisToday we're announcing a multi-year partnership with Perplexity AI to power its AI workloads on Crusoe Cloud. Training and inference are no longer separate problems. The fastest-moving AI companies need one platform that carries a model across its entire lifecycle — from research to production, from the first electron to the last token. That's exactly what this partnership delivers. Perplexity will run its full model lifecycle on Crusoe: training frontier models on dedicated NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 clusters, then serving them in production through Crusoe Managed Inference. At Perplexity's scale, where every millisecond of latency is felt by millions of users, that vertical integration isn't a nice-to-have, it's the product. Perplexity is building the future of how people find answers. We're proud to be the infrastructure making it possible: https://lnkd.in/ebQaKN8v
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Erwan Menard shared thisNot every airline is the same, would you agree? Well the same goes with data centers: Not every project is the same. I have always been and remain really compelled by Crusoe energy-first approach. Today I feel equally compelled by another unique aspect of our approach: Our genuine focus on community impact around our AI factories.Erwan Menard shared thisData centers are fueling economic development in Abilene, TX. How do we make sure what we're building also benefits the community? As Crusoe continues building in Texas, we joined Representative Jodey Arrington and his team for a sit-down with community partners and stakeholders to explore that question. Huge thanks to everyone who stopped by to discuss what's best for Abilene.
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Erwan Menard shared thisAlways a pleasure to chat with Priyanka Vergadia. I hope you’ll find the conversation helpful! Come build AI with us at CrusoeErwan Menard shared thisRecently I had the opportunity to sit down with Erwan Menard, head of product at Crusoe, to peel the curtain behind NeoClouds: a purpose-built, GPU-first cloud designed for AI workloads and high-performance computing. We covered several intriguing topics, including: ✅ The biggest bottlenecks in AI infrastructure. ✅ The path to efficient model training, fine-tuning, and inference. ✅ How to efficiently transition from "electron to tokens." ✅ The concept of data centers beyond Earth in space. ✅ The role of open-source models and the future of infrastructure for running them. Catch full episode here: https://lnkd.in/gdTj8Tn3 Thank you to Crusoe team for the chance to explore this crucial topic for enterprise AI: Lyn Hart 🙏 #aiinfrastructure #ai #gpu #aicompute #cloudcomputing #neocloud #crusoe
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Erwan Menard liked thisErwan Menard liked this24 hours. 350 builders, product developers, and engineers. What can you build in a single day? Today, on Day Zero of The AI Conference, Crusoe is sponsoring an all-day hackathon in SF. The challenge behind Hack Day is simple: take an idea from zero to a working product in just one day. The winning team will take the conference's main stage tomorrow to pitch a panel of top venture capitalists. We’ll be here all day. Come meet the Crusoe for Developers team and let’s build. Space is limited. Register: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ga6Ei9TQ
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Erwan Menard liked thisErwan Menard liked thisSome news: I’ve joined Crusoe! Excited to be building AI infrastructure at scale with a great team.
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Erwan Menard liked thisErwan Menard liked thisEvery team building on AI faces the same decision: call a closed frontier model, run and customize on open models, or train something proprietary. The right answer depends on where you are in the lifecycle. Join us in San Francisco on October 7 for a night of real talk with founders at Ollama and Trajectory who have answered that question differently. Crusoe’s SVP of Product Management, Erwan Menard, will join Ollama’s co-founder Jeffrey Morgan and Trajectory’s co-founder Michael Elabd for a panel discussion on how their teams are making these decisions, and how cost, control, performance, and speed factor in. Stick around after the talk for an audience Q&A and networking reception. Space is limited. Register: 🔗 https://luma.com/lnnlfa87
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Erwan Menard liked thisReally looking forward to bringing the French Tech San Francisco community together this Thursday at Snowflake!Erwan Menard liked thisLast few spots for this Thursday! 🎟️ Register here: https://lnkd.in/g3tgkV3w Join us at Snowflake’s SVAI Hub in Menlo Park for a rare conversation with Thierry Cruanes, Co-Founder of Snowflake, moderated by Sunil Chhaya. Thursday, September 24 | 6–9 PM A big thank-you to Snowflake for welcoming our community. Looking forward to seeing many of you there! #FrenchTechSF #Snowflake #SiliconValley
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Erwan Menard liked thisErwan Menard liked this🚀 We're hiring — Cloud Support Engineers Crusoe builds and operates its own GPU infrastructure from the ground up, purpose built for AI workloads. We just closed a $3.9B Series F at a $30.9B valuation, with NVIDIA as one of our investors. Companies like OpenAI, Perplexity, Cognition, and Figure are already running on Crusoe Cloud. We're growing our Cloud Support Engineering team, and these are just two of several open roles right now: 🌙 Weekend shift (Wed–Sun or Sun–Wed). In-office in Bellevue, Dallas, Denver, NYC, SF, or Sunnyvale. Comp premium on top of base. ⭐ Senior Cloud Support Engineer. NYC. Standard schedule. A note on what this role actually is: it's customer-facing support, not DevOps, not SRE, not platform engineering. You'll own external customer issues from the first ticket to full resolution, for enterprise teams running some of the heaviest GPU and AI workloads out there. Real Kubernetes. Real Linux. Problems that look different every time. What we're looking for: ✅ Real hands-on Linux and Kubernetes experience, not something you just listed on a resume ✅ A history of working directly with external customers on technical issues, whether that's support, escalation, or technical account work ✅ You're comfortable being the first line of defense on a live, high-stakes customer problem ✅ Bonus points for GPU, HPC, Slurm, InfiniBand/RDMA, or inference-serving experience These are net-new seats. Nobody's leaving these roles for you to fill. Whoever joins now helps shape how this function actually works, gets a direct line to engineering and product, and gets in early enough for real equity upside as the team scales. 📍 Weekend shift: Bellevue, Dallas, Denver, NYC, SF, or Sunnyvale. 📍 Senior Cloud Support Engineer: NYC. 📩 Interested, or know someone who is? Message me directly.
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Erwan Menard liked thisErwan Menard liked this🗣️ "We benchmarked the cluster, and we realized that Crusoe matches the state-of-the-art speed in terms of both the GPUs and the storage. We decided to go with Crusoe because it was the best possible choice." - David Novotný, Co-founder and CTO, SpAItial AI SpAItial builds world models that generate physically grounded environments, the kinds of places a robot can learn to move before it ever acts in the real world. Training one means sharding a model across NVIDIA Hopper GPUs on Crusoe. Near-linear scaling depends on the interconnect, and on storage fast enough to keep the GPUs fed. The team runs on a high-leverage principle: the question is always what they don't have to do themselves. Crusoe Managed Kubernetes handles the control plane and security patching. Crusoe manages the private VPC over NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand networking, so SpAItial's engineers never own the networking layer. In their own benchmarks, the cluster held over 97% scaling efficiency, so almost no compute is lost to interconnect overhead as the cluster grows. Training experiments now iterate roughly 30% faster. Watch the full story → https://lnkd.in/e-rcg6Xd
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Erwan Menard liked thisThrilled to share that Crusoe has entered a strategic partnership to serve Inference workloads for Thinking Machines Lab. Both companies are growing at an unprecedented pace, and this partnership reflects our shared commitment to building the infrastructure and models that the next generation of AI needs to scale reliably and efficiently. Special thanks to Andrew Straub, Myle Ott, Omer Landau, Omri Berkovitch, Sydnee Mayers, Jay Maloney, Daniel Auerbach, Erwan Menard, Nick Sammut, Chase Lochmiller, and the many folks behind the scenes who made this partnership possible. Looking forward to our continued collaboration!Erwan Menard liked thisThinking Machines Lab is running its production workloads on Crusoe Managed Inference. We met the bar they set for their own systems and took them to production fast on a dedicated, SLA-backed Tailored Deployment we run and support. Another strong addition to our fast-growing Managed Inference business. Next, we're working with Thinking Machines Lab on batch inference for synthetic data generation, so the same inference that serves their users also feeds their research. 🔬 Read the announcement → https://lnkd.in/g4stRS-e
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