OMNI Compute is a unified compute marketplace that allows businesses to access, provision, and operate GPUs in any cloud or region, with no code changes required.
MIAMI, January 12, 2026–(BUSINESS FEED)–Cast AI, the leading application performance automation platform, was introduced today OMNI calculationa unified compute control plane that automatically discovers available resources across cloud providers and regions and seamlessly extends existing Kubernetes clusters to consume them. The company also announced a strategic investment from Pacific Alliance Ventures (PAV), the U.S.-based venture capital arm of Shinsegae Group, a $50 billion-plus Korean conglomerate with leading businesses in retail, consumer and digital platforms. With this funding round, the valuation of Cast AI exceeds one billion dollars.
“Shinsegae Group’s investment and our $1 billion-plus valuation underscores the market’s confidence in our platform vision and our ability to execute it on a global scale,” said Yuri Frayman, co-founder and CEO of Cast AI. “Businesses don’t just need cheaper infrastructure: they need infrastructure that automatically adapts as workloads and constraints change. This is what our automation agents were built for, and this investment helps us scale it globally.
Cast AI expands its platform with the introduction of OMNI Compute
OMNI Compute connects external capabilities, including GPUs, as native compute, enabling workloads to run on the most appropriate resources, locally or in the clouds, without code changes, reconfiguration or operational changes.
It allows organizations to run any workload, starting with AI inference, without cloud lock-in, while maintaining control over where they run, to meet compliance and regulatory requirements. Teams can scale services without entrusting workloads to a single region or vendor, while keeping infrastructure behavior automated, governed, and predictable as demand increases. It applies the same optimization used on the Cast AI platform to this external capacity, including GPU sharing, monitoring and scaling, ensuring AI workloads remain efficient and consistent at scale.
“OMNI Compute makes GPUs fungible at the infrastructure level so that capacity is not confined to a single cloud or region,” said Laurent Gil, president and co-founder of Cast AI. “Teams can move, allocate and run production workloads anywhere compute is actually available, with control over cost and performance. »
Oracle is one of the cloud providers making GPU capacity available to Cast AI customers through OMNI Compute.
“Partnering with Cast AI opens up entirely new markets for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Organizations running on any hyperscaler can now instantly access best-in-class OCI AI infrastructure, across all Oracle Cloud regions globally,” said Karan Batta, senior vice president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “OMNI Compute removes the barriers that have traditionally kept businesses locked into a single cloud, and allows them to leverage OCI’s fleet of high-performance GPUs when they need them. This is a step change in how global AI platforms will be deployed and scaled.
“Cast AI’s ability to provision GPUs across multiple clouds and regions without requiring a single change to our application code is a game-changer for running AI inference at scale,” said Erik Johnson, Uniphore vice president of product management. “In production, access to reliable, affordable GPU capacity exactly where and when you need it is mission critical. OMNI Compute makes this possible. It allows us to serve our customers in different regions around the world, gives us instant flexibility, eliminates regional GPU shortages, and allows us to maintain consistent performance globally. This level of portability fundamentally changes how we build and operate real-time AI workloads. »
Cast AI is growing rapidly across geographies, industries and segments
Shinsegae Group’s investment follows a year of record performance at Cast AI that included a Series C funding round led by G2 Venture Partners and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with participation from Aglaé Ventures, joining existing partners Hedosophia, Cota Capital, Vintage Investment Partners, Creandum and Uncorrated Ventures. Today, Cast is trusted by organizations such as Akamai, BMW, Cisco, FICO, HuggingFace, NielsenIQ, Swisscom and TGS.
Global expansion has been a key pillar of Cast AI’s growth strategy following its Series C funding round. Since then, the company has significantly expanded its regional presence by opening new offices in Bangalore, London, New York and Tel Aviv, as well as subsidiaries in Canada, France, India, Korea, Lithuania, Singapore and the United Kingdom.
“Cast AI has created a category-defining automation platform that aligns with the needs of modern, cloud-first businesses,” said Hyuk Jin Chung, Managing Partner at PAV. “We are seeing strong demand for the company’s platform globally, and we are excited to support the company’s continued expansion in Asia and help realize its long-term vision for the application performance automation platform.” »
“Using Cast AI, we automated continuous infrastructure optimization on Amazon EKS, reducing operational overhead while improving application efficiency and real-time cost control,” said Kyotack Tylor Kim, Head of Next Gen Cloud Group at Samsung Electronics. “OMNI Compute’s unified control plane has the potential to change the way companies like Samsung manage AI infrastructure on a global scale.
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Cast AI is an automation platform for operating cloud-native and AI workloads at scale. By integrating autonomous decision-making agents into Kubernetes and cloud environments, Cast AI continuously optimizes performance, reliability, and efficiency while controlling operational efforts and costs as environments grow. Learn more:
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