CIOs Look Beyond 'Big 3' Cloud Providers For AI Innovation
CIO, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
Athos Therapeutics' decision to go niche with a GPU-as-a-service from upstart Vultr could point the way forward for similar organizations with specialized AI needs.
AWS, Microsoft, and Google may continue to dominate the enterprise cloud market, but a raft of second-tier cloud providers are proving to be valuable partners for organizations and innovators with specialized workloads and use cases - especially in the burgeoning AI era.
Athos Therapeutics is one such enterprise. Having previously run its AI workloads on premises, the clinical-stage biotechnology company chose Vultr Cloud GPU, a GPU-as-a-service that Athos runs on Dell's Nvidia-powered HGX H100 PowerEdge servers to train its homegrown AI models and build its AI-powered precision medicine platform aimed at solving auto-immune and cancerous diseases.