Our Mission

Democratizing high-performance compute.

CNLab was founded to solve the fundamental inefficiency in AI infrastructure. We believe intelligence should not be gatekept by expensive hardware — it should be maximized through intelligent orchestration. Our platform bridges the gap between idle silicon and breakthrough research.

Story

From a measurement to a company.

CNLab started in 2024 as a research project inside a Korean university AI lab. The founders had a fifteen-GPU cluster, and they wanted to know how it was actually being used. The answer — 4.7% mean utilization, 95% of the year at zero — was both shocking and unsurprising.

By the end of 2025 the project had become CNLab. The first commercial deployment went live at a top-five Korean university in March 2026. Twelve weeks later, GPU utilization on that cluster crossed 91% for the first time. Today, CNLab manages 5,000+ GPUs across twenty countries.

Timeline

  • 2024 Q1. Research project starts in a Korean university lab.
  • 2024 Q4. First internal deployment, 15 GPUs, 90 students.
  • 2025 Q1. 1% Block partitioning ships.
  • 2025 Q3. Multi-cluster federation goes GA.
  • 2025 Q4. CNLab incorporated. Seed round closed.
  • 2026 Q1. First commercial customer.
  • 2026 Q2. 5,000+ GPUs under management. Series A in motion.
Values

What we hold ourselves to.

Engineering rigour

Every claim on this site has a measurement behind it. If we can't reproduce a number, we don't ship it.

Research-first

Half our team holds a PhD or works toward one. We publish, we open-source, we engage with the academic community.

Customer obsession

Customer-facing engineers attend the daily standup. Sales reads the bug tracker. Support has a direct line to the founders.

Open by default

Where we can be open-source, we are. Where we can be transparent, we are. Trust is earned through what we publish, not what we promise.

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