Cast AI announced it has crossed a $1 billion valuation following a strategic investment from Pacific Alliance Ventures (PAV), the U.S.-based corporate venture arm of Shinsegae Group, as the company launched OMNI Compute, a unified compute marketplace designed to help enterprises access and operate GPU capacity across clouds and regions without making code changes.
The Miami-based company said OMNI Compute acts as a unified compute control plane that automatically discovers available resources across cloud providers and geographies and can transparently extend existing Kubernetes clusters to consume that capacity. Cast AI positioned the launch as a way to help organizations run AI workloads—starting with inference—without being locked into a single cloud or region, while retaining control over where workloads run to meet compliance and regulatory requirements.
Cast AI said OMNI Compute connects external capacity, including GPUs, as native compute, enabling workloads to run on the most appropriate resources locally or across clouds without reconfiguration or operational changes. The company added that it applies the same optimization approach used across the broader Cast AI platform to external capacity, including capabilities such as GPU sharing, monitoring, and rightsizing, with the goal of keeping AI workloads efficient and consistent at scale.
Oracle is among the cloud providers making GPU capacity available to Cast AI customers through OMNI Compute, according to the company.
The announcement also highlighted Cast AI’s continued growth and international expansion. The company said Shinsegae Group’s investment follows a year of record performance, coming after a prior Series C funding round led by G2 Venture Partners and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with participation from Aglaé Ventures and existing investors including Hedosophia, Cota Capital, Vintage Investment Partners, Creandum, and Uncorrelated Ventures.
Cast AI said its platform is used by organizations including Akamai, BMW, Cisco, FICO, HuggingFace, NielsenIQ, Swisscom, and TGS. The company also said it has expanded its footprint by opening offices in Bangalore, London, New York, and Tel Aviv, and establishing subsidiaries in Canada, France, India, Korea, Lithuania, Singapore, and the UK.
Cast AI describes itself as an automation platform for operating cloud-native and AI workloads at scale, using autonomous decision-making agents embedded into Kubernetes and cloud environments to continuously optimize performance, reliability, and efficiency while reducing operational effort and controlling costs.
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“Shinsegae Group’s investment, and our over one billion dollar valuation, underscore the market’s confidence in our platform vision and our ability to execute it globally. Enterprises don’t just need cheaper infrastructure – they need infrastructure that adapts automatically as workloads and constraints change. That is what our automation agents were built to do, and this investment helps us scale that globally.”
Yuri Frayman, Co-Founder and CEO, Cast AI
“OMNI Compute makes GPUs fungible at the infrastructure layer so capacity isn’t trapped inside a single cloud or region. Teams can move, allocate, and run production workloads wherever compute is actually available, with control over cost and performance.”
Laurent Gil, President and Co-Founder, Cast AI
“Partnering with Cast AI opens entirely new markets for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Organizations running on any hyperscaler can now access best-in-class OCI AI infrastructure instantly, in every Oracle Cloud region worldwide. OMNI Compute removes the barriers that traditionally kept enterprises locked into a single cloud, and it allows them to tap into OCI’s high-performance GPU fleet the moment they need it. This is a step-change in how global AI platforms will deploy and scale.”
Karan Batta, Senior Vice President, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
“Cast AI’s ability to provision GPUs across multiple clouds and regions without requiring a single change to our application code is a game changer for running AI inference at scale. In production, access to reliable, affordable GPU capacity exactly where and when you need it is mission-critical. OMNI Compute makes that possible. It enables us to serve our customers in different regions around the world, gives us instant flexibility, eliminates regional GPU shortages, and lets us maintain consistent performance globally. That level of portability fundamentally changes how we build and operate real-time AI workloads.”
Erik Johnson, Vice President of Product Management, Uniphore
“Cast AI has built a category-defining automation platform that aligns with the needs of modern, cloud-first enterprises. We see strong demand for the company’s platform globally, and we’re excited to support the company’s continued expansion in Asia and help it realize its long-term Application Performance Automation platform vision.”
Hyuk Jin Chung, Managing Partner, Pacific Alliance Ventures
“With Cast AI, we’ve automated continuous infrastructure optimization on Amazon EKS – reducing operational overhead while improving application efficiency and cost control in real time. OMNI Compute’s unified control plane has the potential to change how enterprises like Samsung run AI infrastructure globally.”
Kyotack Tylor Kim, Head of Next Gen Cloud Group, Samsung Electronics
