Summary
In September, GMI Cloud expanded its inference engine with major model drops (Kimi K2, Qwen3-Next, DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus), introduced new infra products (On-Demand Bare-Metal, AI Containers), and hit compliance milestones with SOC 2 Type I. From AI Conference keynotes to Seedance Pro community campaigns, we showed how model agnosticism, lower costs, and faster scaling make GMI the builder’s cloud of choice.
📈 Scaling to New Highs
- Featured as the #1 AI inference choice in Programming Insider’s 2025 guide, delivering 65% faster performance, 45% lower costs, and 20× faster LLM inference on NVIDIA H200 + GB200. Read here.
- Demand surging across open models — Seedance, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Kimi K2 all launched with strong adoption.
🧠 Major Model Launches
- Kimi K2-0905: 32B active parameters, 256k context.
- Qwen3-Next (Alibaba): 80B-A3B-Instruct & 80B-A3B-Thinking.
- DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: cleaner multilingual outputs, stronger code/search agent, more stable benchmarks.
- WAN 2.5: audio-visual sync with daily credit giveaways.
- Seedance 1.0 Pro: T2V/I2V leaderboards, 5s 1080p in 41.4s (L20 GPU).
⚙ Infrastructure Breakthroughs
- On-Demand Bare-Metal (CE-BMaaS): dedicated servers with VPC, firewalls, persistent IPs — no SmartNIC tax, no hyperscaler delays. Read here.
- On-Demand AI Containers: spin up in seconds, scale elastically, shut down clean — no idle waste or lock-in. Read here. Read here.
🛡 Recognition & Compliance
- SOC 2 Type I Compliant — enterprise-grade security validated by AICPA, milestone in GMI’s data privacy journey.
🤝 Community & Events
- AIConf 2025 (San Francisco, Sept 17-18): sponsored and participated in The AI Conference, where our booth drew the longest line in the expo hall with 500+ coconuts and our VP of Engineering Yujing Qian spoke on “Token Economics and the Collapsing Bubble of Closed-Source Lock-in.”
- Gen AI Founders Meetup (Redwood City, Sept 16): co-hosted with NewportAI, covering model liquidity & scaling.
- GUI Agent Research Symposium (Mountain View): with researchers from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, NVIDIA, Meta, Apple.
- Open Call for Seedance Creators: $20 credits for all participants, showcase promotion across socials.
- Seedance Pro giveaway: $100 daily credits to verified users, boosting adoption + community engagement.
📖 Blog Highlights
- Revisiting DeepSeek’s Impact (Half a Year Later) — revisits the “AI bubble” panic after DeepSeek’s January release. Finds inference demand up 496%, open-source closing the gap, and compute scarcer than ever. Read full blog.
- Seedance 1.0 on GMI Cloud — technical deep dive on 1080p video generation, L20 benchmarks, and cinematic control. Read full blog.
👉 Takeaway
From infra innovation (Bare-Metal, AI Containers) to model liquidity (Kimi K2, Qwen3, DeepSeek-V3.1) and community engagement (Seedance Pro campaigns, AIConf presence), September proved that GMI isn’t just keeping pace with AI’s future — we’re building it.
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