The Great GPU Heist: How SkyPilot Aims to Shake Up the AI Compute Industry Databricks co founder Ion Stoica's latest startup, SkyPilot, has raised $20 million in seed funding to address a long standing issue in the AI community: managing and utilizing Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).
With its neutral stance on hardware and cloud vendors, SkyPilot is poised to disrupt the status quo. The problem is all too familiar.
As Databricks expanded from one cloud to two, Stoica recounts a year of engineering headaches that would become a universal issue for AI labs.