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AI-cloud provider Crusoe and Thinking Machines Lab announced a $65 million annual agreement for open-model production inference.

· ComputeLabs Research · from the September 23, 2026 edition

Crusoe and Thinking Machines Lab announced an agreement covering inference for the lab’s open models on Crusoe Cloud. The disclosed value is $65 million annually, not a total multiyear contract value or a financing round.

Thinking Machines Lab will run production workloads through Crusoe Managed Inference. The announcement identifies throughput, price-performance, and reliability as the service’s optimization priorities, but the supplied excerpt provides no measured performance results.

The announcement describes an agreement rather than preliminary negotiations. However, the excerpt does not disclose its duration, minimum-use obligations, payment conditions, GPU allocation, or deployment locations, and it does not establish revenue already recognized by Crusoe.

  • Crusoe
  • Thinking Machines Lab

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