OctoAI (formerly OctoML) was a Seattle-based AI inference platform founded in 2019 as a University of Washington Allen School spin-out of the Apache TVM project. The company originally focused on machine-learning model optimization and compilation across CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators, and in June 2023 launched a generative-AI SaaS inference platform that served open-source foundation models (Llama 2, Mixtral, SDXL, Stable Diffusion, Whisper) behind OpenAI-style REST APIs with Python and TypeScript SDKs. In January 2024 OctoML formally rebranded to OctoAI and in April 2024 unveiled OctoStack, a self-contained generative-AI production stack for deploying models inside customer VPC and on-premises environments across NVIDIA GPUs, AMD GPUs, and AWS Inferentia. NVIDIA acquired OctoAI in September 2024 for a reported $165M (down from a 2021 peak valuation of ~$900M), with CEO Luis Ceze and key staff joining NVIDIA. OctoAI sent customers a "Wind down of OctoAI Services" notice and terminated all hosted endpoints, accounts, and SDK access on 31 October 2024. The octo.ai domain now 301-redirects to nvidia.com and no public OctoAI product, API, dashboard, or developer portal remains; the technology has been absorbed into NVIDIA's internal AI inference stack and is not separately purchasable. This catalog entry is a historical record of the former OctoAI developer surface and the GitHub artifacts that remain.
OctoAI publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Acquired, Defunct, Inference, Generative AI, and LLM.
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Text-to-image and image-to-image inference for SDXL, SDXL-Lightning, Stable Diffusion 1.5, and SSD-1B with ControlNet, LoRA, and adapter support, plus inpainting and asset-manag...
Endpoints for uploading, listing, and managing user assets — checkpoints, LoRAs, textual inversions, ControlNets, and VAE files — used by the image and text inference APIs. The ...
Container-deployment API ("Compute Service") that let customers build, register, and serve their own custom model containers on OctoAI's managed GPU fleet, with autoscaling and ...
OctoStack was OctoAI's self-contained generative-AI production stack for deploying open and customer-trained foundation models inside a customer's VPC or on-premises environment...
OctoAI's text and image endpoints implemented OpenAI-style request and response shapes so existing OpenAI client code could be repointed by changing the base URL and API key.
Open-Source Model Catalog
A shared catalog hosted Llama 2/3, Mixtral, Mistral, Code Llama, SDXL, SSD-1B, Stable Diffusion 1.5, and Whisper behind per-token and per-image pricing without GPU provisioning.
Custom Model Compute Service
Customers could package their own model containers and have OctoAI autoscale them on a managed GPU fleet, billed by GPU-second.
Asset Library
Upload and manage LoRAs, checkpoints, textual inversions, VAEs, and ControlNets and apply them at request time to image and text-generation endpoints.
OctoStack Private Deployment
Self-contained inference stack that ran inside a customer VPC or on-premises across NVIDIA, AMD, and AWS Inferentia hardware with fine-tuning, batching, and asset management bui...
TVM-Based Model Optimization
OctoAI's optimization pipeline descended from Apache TVM (created by founder Tianqi Chen) and used ML-guided compilation to improve throughput and latency across heterogeneous a...
Teams used the OpenAI-compatible endpoints to swap GPT-3.5/4 calls for Llama 2 / Mixtral at lower cost without rewriting client code.
Generative Image Pipelines
Product, marketing, and creative teams ran SDXL-based image generation with custom LoRAs and ControlNets for branded asset production.
Private Generative AI in Regulated Industries
Healthcare, financial-services, and government customers deployed OctoStack in-VPC or on-premises to keep prompts, completions, and model weights inside their security boundary.
Custom Fine-Tune Hosting
Teams fine-tuned open-weights models and served the resulting adapters and full-weight checkpoints behind OctoAI inference endpoints without managing GPU infrastructure.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
NVIDIA
Acquired OctoAI in September 2024 for a reported $165M; OctoAI team and technology absorbed into NVIDIA's AI inference stack and all OctoAI hosted services terminated on 31 Octo...
Apache TVM
OctoAI's optimization stack originated from Apache TVM, the deep-learning compiler founded by OctoAI co-founder Tianqi Chen at the University of Washington.
AWS
OctoAI was an AWS Partner; OctoStack ran on AWS GPU instances and AWS Inferentia accelerators, with sagemaker-examples published in the GitHub org.
Docker
OctoAI ran a DockerCon 2023 generative-AI workshop and published the dockercon23-octoai workshop repo.
LangChain & LlamaIndex
OctoAI's LLM endpoints shipped with documented LangChain and LlamaIndex providers, demonstrated in the octoml-llm-qa sample repo.
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name: OctoAI
description: OctoAI (formerly OctoML) was a Seattle-based AI inference platform founded in 2019 as a University of Washington
Allen School spin-out of the Apache TVM project. The company originally focused on machine-learning model optimization and
compilation across CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators, and in June 2023 launched a generative-AI SaaS inference platform that
served open-source foundation models (Llama 2, Mixtral, SDXL, Stable Diffusion, Whisper) behind OpenAI-style REST APIs with
Python and TypeScript SDKs. In January 2024 OctoML formally rebranded to OctoAI and in April 2024 unveiled OctoStack, a
self-contained generative-AI production stack for deploying models inside customer VPC and on-premises environments across
NVIDIA GPUs, AMD GPUs, and AWS Inferentia. NVIDIA acquired OctoAI in September 2024 for a reported $165M (down from a 2021
peak valuation of ~$900M), with CEO Luis Ceze and key staff joining NVIDIA. OctoAI sent customers a "Wind down of OctoAI
Services" notice and terminated all hosted endpoints, accounts, and SDK access on 31 October 2024. The octo.ai domain now
301-redirects to nvidia.com and no public OctoAI product, API, dashboard, or developer portal remains; the technology has
been absorbed into NVIDIA's internal AI inference stack and is not separately purchasable. This catalog entry is a historical
record of the former OctoAI developer surface and the GitHub artifacts that remain.
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name: OctoAI Text Gen Inference API
description: OpenAI-compatible chat and text-completion endpoints serving open-source LLMs including Llama 2, Llama 3, Mixtral
8x7B, Mistral 7B, Code Llama, and customer fine-tunes. Supported streaming, function calling, JSON mode, and a shared
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description: Text-to-image and image-to-image inference for SDXL, SDXL-Lightning, Stable Diffusion 1.5, and SSD-1B with
ControlNet, LoRA, and adapter support, plus inpainting and asset-management endpoints. The API was reachable at https://image.octoai.run
and shut down on 31 October 2024.
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description: Domain now 301-redirects to nvidia.com; service terminated 31 October 2024.
- aid: octoai:octoai-asset-library-api
name: OctoAI Asset Library API
description: Endpoints for uploading, listing, and managing user assets — checkpoints, LoRAs, textual inversions, ControlNets,
and VAE files — used by the image and text inference APIs. The API was reachable under api.octoai.cloud and shut down
on 31 October 2024.
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baseURL: https://api.octoai.cloud
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- type: StatusPage
url: https://octo.ai
description: Domain now 301-redirects to nvidia.com; service terminated 31 October 2024.
- aid: octoai:octoai-compute-service-api
name: OctoAI Compute Service API
description: Container-deployment API ("Compute Service") that let customers build, register, and serve their own custom
model containers on OctoAI's managed GPU fleet, with autoscaling and OpenAI-style invocation. Shut down on 31 October
2024.
humanURL: https://octo.ai
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- Compute
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name: OctoStack
description: OctoStack was OctoAI's self-contained generative-AI production stack for deploying open and customer-trained
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AMD GPUs, and AWS Inferentia, claimed 4x better GPU utilization, and bundled high-utilization batching, fine-tuning, and
asset management. OctoStack is no longer offered as a standalone product after the NVIDIA acquisition; its technology
has been absorbed into NVIDIA's inference stack.
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- type: Features
data:
- name: OpenAI-Compatible Inference
description: OctoAI's text and image endpoints implemented OpenAI-style request and response shapes so existing OpenAI
client code could be repointed by changing the base URL and API key.
- name: Open-Source Model Catalog
description: A shared catalog hosted Llama 2/3, Mixtral, Mistral, Code Llama, SDXL, SSD-1B, Stable Diffusion 1.5, and
Whisper behind per-token and per-image pricing without GPU provisioning.
- name: Custom Model Compute Service
description: Customers could package their own model containers and have OctoAI autoscale them on a managed GPU fleet,
billed by GPU-second.
- name: Asset Library
description: Upload and manage LoRAs, checkpoints, textual inversions, VAEs, and ControlNets and apply them at request
time to image and text-generation endpoints.
- name: OctoStack Private Deployment
description: Self-contained inference stack that ran inside a customer VPC or on-premises across NVIDIA, AMD, and AWS
Inferentia hardware with fine-tuning, batching, and asset management built in.
- name: TVM-Based Model Optimization
description: OctoAI's optimization pipeline descended from Apache TVM (created by founder Tianqi Chen) and used ML-guided
compilation to improve throughput and latency across heterogeneous accelerators.
- type: UseCases
data:
- name: Repointing OpenAI Workloads to Open Models
description: Teams used the OpenAI-compatible endpoints to swap GPT-3.5/4 calls for Llama 2 / Mixtral at lower cost without
rewriting client code.
- name: Generative Image Pipelines
description: Product, marketing, and creative teams ran SDXL-based image generation with custom LoRAs and ControlNets
for branded asset production.
- name: Private Generative AI in Regulated Industries
description: Healthcare, financial-services, and government customers deployed OctoStack in-VPC or on-premises to keep
prompts, completions, and model weights inside their security boundary.
- name: Custom Fine-Tune Hosting
description: Teams fine-tuned open-weights models and served the resulting adapters and full-weight checkpoints behind
OctoAI inference endpoints without managing GPU infrastructure.
- type: Integrations
data:
- name: NVIDIA
description: Acquired OctoAI in September 2024 for a reported $165M; OctoAI team and technology absorbed into NVIDIA's
AI inference stack and all OctoAI hosted services terminated on 31 October 2024.
- name: Apache TVM
description: OctoAI's optimization stack originated from Apache TVM, the deep-learning compiler founded by OctoAI co-founder
Tianqi Chen at the University of Washington.
- name: AWS
description: OctoAI was an AWS Partner; OctoStack ran on AWS GPU instances and AWS Inferentia accelerators, with sagemaker-examples
published in the GitHub org.
- name: Docker
description: OctoAI ran a DockerCon 2023 generative-AI workshop and published the dockercon23-octoai workshop repo.
- name: LangChain & LlamaIndex
description: OctoAI's LLM endpoints shipped with documented LangChain and LlamaIndex providers, demonstrated in the octoml-llm-qa
sample repo.
- type: SDKs
data:
- name: Python SDK
description: octoai-python-sdk — Python client for the OctoAI inference, asset-library, and compute-service APIs. Package
and repo were retired alongside the service shutdown on 31 October 2024.
- name: TypeScript SDK
description: octoai-typescript-sdk — TypeScript / Node.js client for the OctoAI inference and asset APIs. Retired alongside
the service shutdown on 31 October 2024.
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url: https://www.nvidia.com
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-status: defunct
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