SEOUL, South Korea – October 16, 2025 – Lablup Inc., a leading AI infrastructure company, today announced its participation as a silver sponsor at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, taking place November 10-13 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.

The conference hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) celebrates Kubernetes' 10th anniversary and brings together the world's largest gathering of cloud-native technology experts. Lablup demonstrates how Backend.AI, its enterprise AI infrastructure operating platform, seamlessly integrates with the Kubernetes ecosystem while addressing real-world challenges in AI workload management.

Bridging the gap between AI innovation and infrastructure reality

"There's a harsh gap between the ideal of AI factories and reality," said Joongi Kim, CTO of Lablup. "Software is the key to bridging this gap."

At the recent 'lab | up > /conf/5' technical conference, Kim shared insights from operating large-scale GPU clusters: "When running hundreds or thousands of GPUs, something is always bound to fail somewhere." This reality drives Lablup's approach of combining horizontal scaling with vertical integration, spanning from AI models down to hardware drivers.

Enterprise AI infrastructure operating platform 'Backend.AI' to showcase cloud-native integration

At KubeCon, Lablup will share its vision for Backend.AI as a "Container-based, Acceleration-first" platform that brings precise Kubernetes control to the cloud-native ecosystem. The platform manages heterogeneous accelerator environments through a single interface while ensuring automatic failover and recovery when individual GPUs fail, maintaining overall system stability.

Backend.AI abstracts infrastructure complexity, allowing data scientists and ML engineers to focus on models and algorithms while providing system administrators with the control and visibility needed to manage large-scale deployments. This approach reduces operational overhead and enables AI developers to concentrate fully on their core work.

Meeting the challenges of AI as critical infrastructure

As AI infrastructure evolves into a critical industry requiring consideration of power grids and water resources, Lablup is committed to democratizing AI infrastructure through software innovation. "Backend.AI empowers the global AI community to accelerate discovery and innovate with confidence," Kim added. "We're excited to engage with the cloud-native community at KubeCon and explore collaboration opportunities."

About Backend.AI

Backend.AI is an AI infrastructure operating platform that transforms GPU complexity into operational simplicity. The platform provides unified management of AI/ML workloads and HPC environments, supporting diverse languages and frameworks. The platform enables efficient resource allocation, allowing developers to easily experiment, deploy, and scale models while organizations achieve operational efficiency and cost savings.