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AI cloud infrastructure company providing GPU services and developer tools for deploying AI applications. Founded 2023. Acquired by NVIDIA in 2025.
Lepton AI was an AI cloud infrastructure company founded in 2023 by Yangqing Jia and Junjie Bai in Cupertino, California. The company provided GPU cloud services and developer tools for building and deploying AI applications, including its FastGPU cloud compute offering and Lepton Search conversational engine. Jia, previously VP of Technology at Alibaba and creator of the Caffe deep learning framework, led the company through an $11 million seed round backed by CRV and Fusion Fund. NVIDIA acquired Lepton AI in April 2025.
Lepton AI has raised $11.0M across 1 funding round.
Lepton AI was an AI cloud infrastructure company founded in 2023 that provided GPU cloud services and developer tools for building and deploying AI applications. The company was acquired by NVIDIA in April 2025.
Lepton AI was co-founded by Yangqing Jia and Junjie Bai. Jia is known as the creator of the Caffe deep learning framework and previously served as VP of Technology at Alibaba Group.
Lepton AI raised $11 million in a seed funding round in May 2023, with investors including CRV and Fusion Fund.
Lepton AI was an AI cloud infrastructure company founded in 2023 that provided GPU cloud services and developer tools for building and deploying AI applications. The company was acquired by NVIDIA in April 2025.
Lepton AI was co-founded by Yangqing Jia and Junjie Bai. Jia is known as the creator of the Caffe deep learning framework and previously served as VP of Technology at Alibaba Group.
Lepton AI raised $11 million in a seed funding round in May 2023, with investors including CRV and Fusion Fund.
Lepton AI has raised $11.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $11.0M Seed in May 2023.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2023 | $11M Seed Stage Venture | — | Brian Zhan, Striker Venture Partners | Completed |
Lepton AI was an AI cloud infrastructure company founded in 2023 by Yangqing Jia and Junjie Bai, both former researchers at Meta's AI lab. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, the company specialized in providing GPU cloud services and developer tools that simplified the process of building, managing, and deploying AI applications at scale.
Yangqing Jia, the company's CEO, is widely known in the AI community as the creator of the Caffe deep learning framework and a key contributor to TensorFlow and PyTorch during his time at Google and Facebook. Before founding Lepton AI, Jia served as Vice President of Technology at Alibaba Group, where he oversaw the company's AI and cloud computing initiatives.
Lepton AI's core product offering centered around making AI infrastructure accessible and cost-effective for startups and enterprises. The company's platform enabled developers to run AI workloads on GPU clusters with minimal configuration, offering services including FastGPU—a competitively priced cloud GPU solution launched in mid-2024. The company also built Lepton Search, a conversational AI search engine released in December 2023 that demonstrated the power of its infrastructure by running on fewer than 500 lines of code.
In May 2023, Lepton AI raised $11 million in seed funding from investors including CRV, Fusion Fund, and other notable backers. The company grew rapidly as demand for AI compute infrastructure surged during the generative AI boom of 2023–2024.
In April 2025, NVIDIA completed its acquisition of Lepton AI in a deal reported to be worth several hundred million dollars, bringing Jia and his team into NVIDIA's ecosystem to further strengthen the company's AI cloud computing capabilities.