IGGY - IROD

Today, we are excited to announce that Mirantis has entered into an agreement to be acquired by @IREN_Ltd — bringing together IREN's AI infrastructure scale and Mirantis's open source k0rdent AI platform to accelerate the build-out of the open standard for AI infrastructure. Every major shift in computing follows the same pattern. A new technology wave arrives, complexity explodes, and the market eventually converges on two types of platforms: proprietary stacks built for their builders' purposes, and open standards built for the whole industry. Linux. Android. Kubernetes. In each case the open standard won — and accelerated the market in doing so. AI infrastructure is the next wave. The open standard for this era is yet to be established. That is what Mirantis and IREN are building together. Mirantis will operate independently, our mission unchanged: to continue supporting our existing customers as before, to democratise GPU consumption, and to enable enterprises and providers everywhere to deliver and consume AI infrastructure faster and more easily. What changes is the scale at which we can pursue that mission. IREN brings hundreds of thousands of GPUs — creating the largest and most robust reference implementation of k0rdent AI in the industry, available to the whole market. The validation is already there. NVIDIA has named Mirantis as one of only three founding ISV partners in its NVIDIA AI Cloud Ready initiative. IREN, Mirantis, and NVIDIA represent exactly the combination that initiative was designed for. The work has already started. This partnership accelerates it. Read the full message from CEO Alex Freedland: buff.ly/2YGCjTt