Crusoe and Thinking Machines Lab Partner to Power Open-Model Inference at Scale
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Crusoe, the industry's first vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider, and AI innovator Thinking Machines Lab today announced a $65 million annual agreement to power inference for the lab's open models on Crusoe Cloud. Through Crusoe Managed Inference, Thinking Machines Lab will serve a range of production workloads – including its Inkling models, GLM 5.2 and 5.3, and its own fine-tuned variants – on a dedicated Tailored Deployment of NVIDIA HGX B200 systems connected with NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, engineered for high-throughput, cost-efficient serving at scale. "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. "Thinking Machines Lab has a very sophisticated engineering team that expects partners to meet their high bar as they grow," said Erwan Menard, SVP, Product Management of Crusoe Cloud. "Our team of leading AI engineers built Crusoe Managed Inference to deliver cost-efficient, reliable infrastructure, inference, and model lifecycle tooling as-a-service, so innovative companies can run their favorite models in production at scale, relying on our expertise." Crusoe will run and support...
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