Lepton AI
GPU compute marketplace across 20+ cloud providers.
Acquired — still operating
acquired by NVIDIA Apr 2025; relaunched as DGX Cloud Lepton
About
Lepton AI was a developer-friendly AI platform offering serverless open-source model inference, dev pods, and batch jobs through a simple API and the open-source leptonai Python library. NVIDIA acquired the startup in April 2025 and relaunched it as NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton.
DGX Cloud Lepton now operates as a GPU compute marketplace connecting developers to capacity from 20+ cloud partners (CoreWeave, Lambda, Nebius, Crusoe, AWS, and others) through one interface, with NVIDIA NIM microservices for inference, distributed training jobs, and region-aware placement for data sovereignty.
What it can do
- Multi-cloud GPU marketplace
- Serverless inference endpoints
- Dev pods and batch jobs
- NVIDIA NIM integration
Setup
Access via build.nvidia.com; use the leptonai Python library and lep CLI.
Prerequisites
NVIDIA cloud account; workload container images.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Verified via vendor site/docs/GitHub and reputable coverage, wave 105; Trending score 82/100 from researcher assessment.
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