Upbound open-sources Modelplane to optimize inference clusters
today released Modelplane, a new open-source tool for managing artificial intelligence inference clusters. San Francisco-based Upbound is backed by $69 million from Alphabet Inc. 's GV fund, Intel Capital and others.
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- SiliconANGLE UPDATED 20:31 EDT / JUNE 23 2026 AI Upbound open-sources Modelplane to optimize inference clusters by Maria Deutscher Upbound Inc.
It's best known as the creator of Crossplane, an open-source infrastructure management engine.
- Modelplane, the new open-source tool that Upbound debuted today, is a version of Crossplane optimized for AI inference workloads.
One of the tasks that the tool promises to ease is spreading inference workloads across multiple clouds.
- The servers that run an AI model often keep its weights in a remote storage system.
When a user enters a prompt, the weights have to be loaded from the remote storage to servers' built-in memory, which slows down processing.
- "We've been watching Crossplane adopters build inference platforms across clusters and operate it at large scale, composing the clusters, the GPUs, the serving stacks and the routing into their own control planes," Upbound founder and Chief Executive Officer Bassam Tabbara wrote in a blog post today.
"We wanted to standardize those patterns, make them far easier to get started with, and contribute the result back to the community as open infrastructure.
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- #San Francisco-based Upbound is backed by $69 million from Alphabet Inc.
- #San Francisco-based Upbound is backed by $69 million from Alphabet Inc.
SiliconANGLE UPDATED 20:31 EDT / JUNE 23 2026 AI Upbound open-sources Modelplane to optimize inference clusters by Maria Deutscher Upbound Inc. today released Modelplane, a new open-source tool for managing artificial intelligence inference clusters. San Francisco-based Upbound is backed by $69 million from Alphabet Inc.
's GV fund, Intel Capital and others. It's best known as the creator of Crossplane, an open-source infrastructure management engine. It's an upgraded version of the Kubernetes control plane, a part of the framework that automates key tasks such as provisioning servers.
The Kubernetes control plane is designed to manage container clusters. Crossplane, in contrast, can also coordinate other types of infrastructure. Additionally, the software includes extensibility features that enable developers to customize it to specific use cases.
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