Lambda

Lambda provides GPU cloud computing infrastructure and hardware solutions specifically designed for artificial intelligence and deep learning workloads. The company's core offering is the Lambda GPU Cloud service, which operates out of colocation data centers in San Francisco, California and Allen, Texas. The service enables AI developers to access NVIDIA GPUs for model training and inference at competitive hourly rates, with H100 GPUs available at USD 2.49 per hour as of 2024. Lambda also manufactures and sells GPU-powered hardware including servers, workstations, and laptops purpose-built for machine learning applications. Its hardware products include the Scalar Server supporting up to eight NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs, the Vector Pro GPU workstation for AI workloads, and the Vector GPU desktop configured with NVIDIA RTX GPUs. In 2022, the company launched the Lambda Tensorbook, a laptop specifically engineered for machine learning development that comes pre-installed with the Lambda Stack software suite which includes PyTorch, TensorFlow, CUDA, and cuDNN.

Key customers and partnerships

Lambda's cloud platform and hardware solutions are utilized by major enterprises including Sony, Samsung, Intuitive Surgical, Apple, Intel, IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe, LinkedIn, Boeing, Harvard, and the US Department of Defense. The company primarily serves AI developers, technology companies, financial services firms, pharmaceutical companies, and media and entertainment businesses that require GPU computing resources for their artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads.