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Google’s Gradient backs Cake, a managed open-source AI infrastructure platform
- Cake, an open-source AI infrastructure management startup that helps businesses compile their AI infrastructure, is emerging from stealth mode backed by Google’s AI-focused Gradient Ventures.
- Cake integrates more than 100 components, including data source adapters, data ingestion, data labelling, databases and generative AI APIs, among other categories.
- Cake has raised $13m since its inception, including a $10m seed round led by Gradient Ventures.
- The curated and managed open-source AI platform is already working with customers such as AI bioscience startup Altis Labs and data intelligence insurtech Ping.
- Cake creates an AI stack format suitable for business and aims to reduce engineering overheads.
- Cake was founded in 2022 in New York by CEO Misha Herscu and CTO Skyler Thomas.
- Cake is targeting businesses with complex data requirements beyond those that can be met by off-the-shelf products.
- Cake is not built around a single open-source project but instead integrates a curated selection of open-source projects and makes them run smoothly.
- Cake’s CTO Thomas, previously a distinguished engineer and director of strategy at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, says most of the AI tooling coming out of research labs is not ready for use by enterprises.
- Cake plans to eventually introduce a hosted version of its AI platform.
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