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Today, Voltron Data, a San Francisco-based startup, announced it is acquiring real-time AI platform Claypot. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. This acquisition will integrate Claypot’s whole team into Voltron Data, allowing the company to offer real-time analytics. This means enterprises can utilize the most current data for tasks such as fraud detection and personalization.
Josh Patterson, the co-founder and CEO of Voltron Data, highlighted that their teams have been collaborating for the past eight months to develop a streaming data backend. This integration excites Voltron Data, as it brings Claypot’s expertise in streaming and real-time data processing onboard.
Founded in 2022 and backed by $110 million in funding, Voltron Data draws inspiration from the animated series Voltron, where small robots combine into a more powerful entity. Voltron Data unites multiple open-source technologies like Apache Arrow, Apache Parquet, and Ibis to enhance data access and analytics.
The company aims to let teams select the best components at each layer of the data stack to build modular systems tailored to organizational needs. Recently, Voltron Data launched Theseus, a distributed query engine that speeds up CPU-intensive data preprocessing tasks using Nvidia GPUs and other hardware. This innovation integrates data preprocessing and AI/ML on GPUs, fostering a unified infrastructure for data analytics and AI pipelines. The acquisition of Claypot AI aims to build on this foundation.
Claypot, led by former engineers from Nvidia and Netflix, allows enterprises to harness the latest data for accurate predictions and rapid insights, optimizing for latency, cost, and accuracy. Its technology supports both streaming and batch data processing, offering flexibility based on the need for timeliness or efficiency.
With Claypot’s technology and team coming onboard, Voltron Data will enhance its modular systems to provide real-time analytics using the same open standards. This development means enterprises will benefit from real-time AI, feature engineering, and MLOps capabilities powered by Theseus and other open-source products.
Patterson mentioned the goal of giving system builders more choices by integrating Claypot AI to extend their vision of composability and hardware acceleration into real-time data and machine learning operations.
While the exact timeline for the integration of Claypot is still unclear, Voltron Data is optimistic about breaking down technology silos across data analytics and AI, with more initiatives in the pipeline. They see significant value in preprocessing structured and semi-structured data for ML/AI models and handling real-time data streams with low latency.
Since its inception, Voltron Data has garnered numerous customers across various industries, including a partnership with federal government agencies to enhance query performance on massive datasets. Recently, they teamed up with HPE to integrate Theseus into HPE Ezmeral unified analytics software.
Customers are increasingly benefiting from Voltron Data’s accelerated solutions, tackling larger and more critical data challenges with ease.