Quake AI expects autonomous agents to become its primary computing customers
Quake AI expects autonomous agents acting on people’s behalf to become its main customers, and is developing APIs to make its computing services easier for them to find and use. The company argues that agents work with data and APIs rather than visual interfaces, so infrastructure designed around human dashboards and one-click controls may be poorly suited to their needs.
Quake AI was formed after Rumble acquired German datacentre operator Northern Data in June; it is an Nvidia Cloud Partner with 22,000 GPUs. Its executives say an agent ordering pizza through a website used far more computing power than a direct API would, estimating that an API could cut usage to one thousandth. That approach depends on businesses making their services and data accessible through APIs.
In short
- Quake AI is building infrastructure for AI agents.
- It operates a 22,000-GPU estate.
- The company says APIs could sharply reduce agents’ computing needs.
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The case for
If autonomous agents become common, designing computing services around APIs could make them faster, cheaper and easier to use than interfaces built for people. The potential efficiency gains could reduce demand on computing resources, while giving businesses a clearer way to serve automated tasks.
The case against
The case for caution is that this forecast depends on agents becoming widely used and businesses making their services and data accessible through APIs. Human-facing interfaces remain important, and shifting infrastructure towards agents could create new costs or dependencies before the expected efficiencies materialise.
Explained simply
AI agents are software that can carry out tasks for people, such as finding information or placing an order. They can use application programming interfaces, or APIs: connections that let software exchange information directly, without navigating a website as a person would.
Quake AI provides computing capacity using powerful graphics processing units, or GPUs, which are used for demanding AI work. It was formed after media company Rumble acquired German datacentre operator Northern Data and is an Nvidia Cloud Partner.
The company’s view is that agents could become major users of computing services, and that direct API connections may use less computing power than agents navigating websites. This depends on businesses making their services and data available through APIs, and on how widely people adopt agents to act on their behalf.
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Originally published by The Register as “Neocloud thinks AI agents – not meatbags – will be its main customers”.