AI Compute Broker — Cross-Cloud Arbitrage
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Two separate worlds finally connect — and the intersection is a product
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An AI-powered compute broker that automatically routes AI workloads to the cheapest available GPU across all cloud providers.
Kill Reason
SkyPilot (open-source, YC-backed) already performs cross-cloud GPU workload routing, with Modal, Anyscale, Vast.ai, and RunPod targeting the same cost-arbitrage market. Cloud providers themselves are building native multi-cloud orchestration, and the open-source alternative eliminates any pricing moat a commercial broker could claim.
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