Lightning AI and Voltage Park Complete Merger to Create Cloud Built for AI

Lightning AI, a cloud platform where developers and companies build and run AI applications, announced the completion of its merger with Voltage Park, a large-scale GPU infrastructure provider—bringing together AI software and on-demand GPU compute in a single AI cloud designed for training, deploying, and running AI models and applications.

According to the company, Lightning is used by over 400,000 individual developers, startups, and large enterprises to build AI models and applications without stitching together single-purpose tools or dealing with dozens of GPU vendors. Teams use Lightning to access GPUs, train models, deploy them into production, and run AI applications and large-scale inference all in one place.

“Imagine instead of using an iPhone, having to carry a separate calculator, flashlight, radio, and more—that’s where AI tooling is today,” said William Falcon, founder and CEO of Lightning AI.

The merger brings AI software and GPU infrastructure together into a single platform. Lightning users get virtually unlimited GPU burst capacity across a fleet of 35,000-plus owned and operated H100, B200, and GB300 GPUs.

Voltage Park customers get optional, built-in AI software, including large-scale inference, model serving, team management, and observability, without needing to use or pay for single-purpose tools.

With Lightning, teams now get purpose-built AI software with enterprise-grade reliability at neocloud GPU prices, the company said.

“Our vision has been to build the cloud for the Gen AI age,” said Falcon. “When I was pretraining world models in 2019 at Facebook’s AI Lab during my PhD, the amount of tooling required, limited access to high-performance infrastructure, and lack of collaboration slowed our research down. From day one, I set out to build a next-generation cloud accessible to everyone, from undergrads to Fortune 100 companies. It’s taken us six years to get here, and this merger is the next big step to making that vision real.”

“This merger reflects a broader shift in the industry,” said Ozan Kaya, former CEO of Voltage Park, now president of Lightning AI. “The next generation of cloud platforms won’t be built by stitching together single-purpose tools. They’ll be AI-native from day one, just as AWS was foundational for the internet era, we are building ground up for the AI era.”

For existing customers, the merger brings expanded capabilities with no disruption. There are no changes to contracts or deployments.

Supporting multiple clouds remains a core part of Lightning’s platform, and customers can continue to use Lightning alongside AWS and other cloud providers, the company said.

For more information about this news, visit www.lightning.ai.