GMI Cloud Funding, Investors & Competitors

Inspur Cloud is a Jinan-headquartered provider launched in 2010 that supplies datacenter infrastructure and cloud services globally. Its offerings encompass servers, storage systems, artificial intelligence platforms, high-performance computing solutions, and software outsourcing for government and enterprise clients.

Nebius is a vertically integrated cloud provider focusing on AI and high-performance computing. It is a carve-out of the previous Russian tech firm Yandex, following the Russian sanctions since the Ukraine-Russia war. Nebius designs and operates its own data centers and servers across Europe and the US, with a total capacity of several hundred megawatts. In September 2025, Microsoft became a major Nebius client under a multiyear $17 billion revenue agreement to provide computing capacity.

CoreWeave is a modern cloud infrastructure company that offers Nvidia GPUs and other essential AI hardware with optimized efficiency to handle the most demanding AI training and inference workloads. Its cloud platform supports the development and use of foundational large language models and the delivery of next-generation AI applications to satisfy the growing demand for AI around the world.

Nscale is an AI infrastructure company and global hyperscaler that builds, owns, and operates data centers and high-density GPU clusters. The neocloud startup integrates everything from renewable power generation to hardware and orchestration software to support AI training, fine-tuning, and inference workloads for enterprises and governments. Unlike traditional cloud providers, Nscale builds and operates its own data centers in regions with abundant, low-cost renewable energy (e.g., hydropower in Norway, renewables in Texas). In West Virginia, the company even owns behind-the-meter natural gas power plants to insulate operations from local grid fluctuations.

Alphabet is a technology holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was created on October 2, 2015 through a restructuring of Google, which became its largest subsidiary, and it is controlled by founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The group earns most of its income from advertising on Google Search, YouTube and its ad network, and it also sells cloud computing services, subscriptions and consumer hardware. Other business units, grouped as Other Bets, include the autonomous driving company Waymo, the life sciences company Verily and the research lab Google DeepMind. Alphabet also holds equity stakes in artificial intelligence, space and energy companies and invests through its own venture arms GV and CapitalG. It has grown through acquisitions of software, hardware and cloud security businesses. Its shares are listed on the Nasdaq under the tickers GOOGL and GOOG.

Dell Technologies is a broad information technology vendor, primarily supplying hardware to enterprises. It focuses on premium and commercial personal computers, as well as enterprise on-premises data center hardware. It holds top-three shares in its core markets of personal computers, peripheral displays, mainstream servers, and external storage. Dell has a robust ecosystem of component and assembly partners and also relies heavily on channel partners to fulfill its sales.

Most of Baidu's revenue comes from Baidu core, with the rest coming from video-streaming subsidiary iQiyi. The firm’s main businesses include online marketing services from its search engine, AI cloud infrastructure, AI applications, AI marketing, and autonomous driving.

SambaNova is a Palo Alto-headquartered enterprise AI company providing full-stack solutions from Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit silicon like the 2023 SN40L chip to software platforms including Samba Cloud for instant inference on models such as Llama and Qwen, SambaStack for on-premise deployments, and SambaManaged for efficient data center AI services deployable in 90 days.

Core Scientific Inc is engaged in designing, building, and operating digital infrastructure for high-density colocation services and digital asset mining. The business operates in three operating segments: Digital Asset Self-Mining, consisting of performing digital asset mining for its own account, Digital Asset Hosted Mining, consisting of providing hosting services to third parties for digital asset mining, and Colocation, consisting of providing high-density colocation services to third parties for AI / HPC operations. The majority of revenue is derived from the Digital Asset Self-Mining Segment.

Machxin Technology is a semiconductor company based in Shanghai, China, founded in 2026. The company designs integrated circuit chips and the software platforms that run on them. Its products are built around custom dynamic dataflow architectures aimed at AI workloads and edge-computing applications. The company targets automotive-grade inference hardware, matching chip layout to algorithms to improve scaling efficiency for transportation and other commercial uses. Revenue is expected to come from chip sales and related technical services.

C3.ai Inc is an enterprise artificial intelligence company. The company provides software-as-a-service applications that enable customers to rapidly develop, deploy, and operate large-scale Enterprise AI applications across any infrastructure. It provides solutions under three divisions, namely, The C3 AI Platform, which is an end-to-end application development and runtime environment for designing, developing, and deploying AI applications; C3 AI Applications, which is a portfolio of pre-built, extensible, industry-specific, and application-specific Enterprise AI applications; and C3 Generative AI, which combines the utility of large language models. Geographically, the company derives revenue from North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, and the Rest of the World.

Microsoft is an American technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington that sells software, cloud computing services, devices and games to consumers, businesses and governments. It was founded on 4 April 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen and has been led by chief executive Satya Nadella since February 2014. Its products include the Windows operating system, the Microsoft 365 productivity suite, the Azure cloud platform, the Copilot AI assistant, Xbox consoles and games, the LinkedIn professional network, the GitHub developer platform and the Bing search engine. In the fiscal year to 30 June 2026 revenue rose 18% to $331.8 billion, operating income reached $155.2 billion and net income $133.7 billion; Azure revenue passed $100 billion for the first time and Microsoft 365 Copilot exceeded 30 million paid seats. The company earns money from cloud subscriptions and consumption, software licences, advertising, and hardware and game sales, and employs about 223,000 people. Major acquisitions include LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in 2016 and Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion in 2023, and it is a major investor in OpenAI under a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar partnership announced in January 2023.

Oracle is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas, having moved its head office from Redwood Shores, California, in December 2020. It was co-founded on June 16, 1977, in Santa Clara, California, by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates as Software Development Laboratories, and took its name from its flagship Oracle Database. Oracle sells database software, enterprise applications including enterprise resource planning, human capital management, customer experience and supply chain software, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and hardware to businesses and governments. It acquired Sun Microsystems and, in June 2022, Cerner for $28.3 billion, which now forms Oracle Health. In January 2025 Oracle joined OpenAI, SoftBank and MGX in the Stargate AI infrastructure venture, and in September 2025 it signed a $300 billion contract with OpenAI for 4.5 gigawatts of capacity over five years. For the quarter ended November 2025 it reported revenue of $14.1 billion, with cloud infrastructure revenue up 68% to $4.1 billion and remaining performance obligations of $130 billion. It employed 141,000 full-time staff in May 2026, and Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia succeeded Safra Catz as co-CEOs, with Ellison as chairman and chief technology officer.

Databricks is a data and artificial-intelligence software company offering a cloud lakehouse platform for engineering, analytics, governance, and machine learning. The organization serves B2B customers and counterparties through the operating assets, products, or financial capabilities described in the cited transaction materials. Its principal economics are Subscription, Usage-based, while its competitive position depends on sector expertise, asset quality, customer relationships, execution, and disciplined capital allocation. The business was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco. The Series I added QIA as a strategic investor at a disclosed forty-three-billion-dollar post-money valuation. The profile reflects the legal or operating business at the transaction date, including its historical identity where a subsequent listing, merger, privatization, disposal, or reorganization changed its name or ownership.

NetApp Inc is a provider of enterprise data management and storage solutions. The company's segments include Hybrid Cloud and Public Cloud. It generates maximum revenue from the Hybrid Cloud segment. The Hybrid Cloud segment offers a portfolio of storage management and infrastructure solutions that help customers recast their traditional data centers with the power of the cloud. This portfolio is designed to operate with public clouds to unlock the potential of hybrid, multi-cloud operations. Hybrid Cloud is composed of software, hardware, and related support, as well as professional and other services. Geographically, the company generates the majority of its revenue from the United States, Canada and Latin America (Americas).

FluidStack delivers a leading AI cloud platform with supercomputing infrastructure for AI labs, governments, and enterprises, serving clients like Mistral, Meta, and Black Forest Labs.

Fireworks AI is a San Francisco-headquartered cloud platform for deploying open-source AI models at scale. The service offers serverless inference for large language models like Llama 3 and vision transformers with sub-100ms latency via custom GPU clusters. Fireworks partners with Cerebras and Groq for hardware acceleration, serving enterprises in e-commerce and healthcare for fine-tuned deployments.

Baseten is a serverless infrastructure platform for deploying machine learning models with autoscaling GPUs, cron scheduling, and vector databases. San Francisco-headquartered and founded in 2021, it supports PyTorch and TensorFlow runtimes, powering real-time inference for 1,000+ ML teams at Fortune 500 firms. Integrations include Pinecone for RAG and LangChain for agentic workflows.