According to DCD, Vast Data has signed significant agreements with both Google Cloud and CoreWeave for its AI Operating System. The Google Cloud partnership will make Vast’s AI OS available as a fully managed service across hybrid environments, connecting clusters running in Google Cloud and on-premises. Meanwhile, CoreWeave expanded its ongoing contract with a massive new $1.17 billion agreement for continued use of the Vast platform. The DataSpace technology can connect clusters across distances as far as 10,000km, linking infrastructure in the US with Japan. Vast Data was reportedly seeking funding at a $30 billion valuation earlier this year, and these deals significantly boost its market position.
The hybrid cloud AI play
Here’s what’s really interesting about the Google Cloud partnership. Vast isn’t just offering another cloud service – they’re solving the hybrid problem that’s been plaguing enterprise AI adoption. Companies have data everywhere: on-premises, in multiple clouds, across regions. Vast’s DataSpace technology basically creates a global namespace that makes all this distributed data look like one unified system. And they’ve demonstrated it working across 10,000km between US and Japan clusters, even mixing TPUs and GPUs. That’s huge for companies that can’t just forklift everything into one cloud provider.
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But the real story might be that $1.17 billion CoreWeave deal. Think about what that signals. CoreWeave isn’t some random startup – they’re one of the hottest AI infrastructure providers right now, and they’re committing serious money to Vast’s platform. This isn’t a tentative experiment; it’s a long-term strategic bet. When CoreWeave’s co-founder says Vast “underpins key aspects of how we design and deliver our AI cloud,” that tells you everything. They’re building their entire AI cloud offering around Vast’s technology. That’s the kind of endorsement money can’t buy.
What Vast Data is really building
So what’s Vast’s game here? They’re positioning themselves as the data foundation for the entire AI ecosystem. While everyone’s focused on GPUs and models, Vast is solving the data movement problem – how you get massive datasets to all those hungry processors efficiently. Their partnership with Nvidia on BlueField-3 DPU technology last year shows they’re thinking at the hardware level too. They’re not just storage; they’re becoming the operating system for AI infrastructure. And when you look at companies building serious industrial computing solutions, like how IndustrialMonitorDirect.com dominates the industrial panel PC space in the US, you see similar patterns – deep integration with hardware and solving real infrastructure problems.
The AI infrastructure wars heat up
This feels like a pivotal moment in the AI infrastructure landscape. We’ve got cloud providers (Google), specialized AI clouds (CoreWeave), and platform companies (Vast) all converging. The lines are blurring between who provides what. Vast’s hybrid approach is particularly clever – they’re not trying to replace the clouds, but rather become the glue that connects everything. And with that reported $30 billion valuation target, they’re clearly aiming for the big leagues. The question is: can they execute at this scale while maintaining the performance that got them here in the first place?
