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Quake AI develops APIs for AI agents, prioritizing utility over human-centric service layers
Autonomous agents, rather than human users, represent the primary clientele for Neocloud, according to the company's perspective.
Quake AI, a newly established cloud provider, is engineering APIs to facilitate more efficient access to its services by these autonomous entities.
This venture stems from Rumble Inc.'s acquisition of German datacenter operator Northern Data in June, leading to the parent company rebranding as RUM Group, which now oversees Quake AI and the Rumble video platform.
Operating a 22,000 GPU estate, Quake AI functions as an Nvidia Cloud Partner (NCP) and a neocloud, specializing in infrastructure for AI workloads.
Unlike other neoclouds building comprehensive service stacks around their GPU farms, Quake AI aims to make its infrastructure readily accessible to AI agents that may soon spread across the internet on behalf of their operators.
Mike Massey, RUM Group's chief financial officer, explained that "Cloud 1.0 - let's call it applications - is like a user interface of how you interact with a machine of some kind." He asserted that agents do not use visual interfaces, instead interacting with information and APIs, necessitating highly data-driven, discoverable platforms.
Massey contended that features designed for human consumption, such as dashboards and one-click settings, are "orthogonal to, if not detrimental to what agents are going to want," arguing agents require "homogeneous compute… to understand and know what your data and your expectations are in terms of performance and uptimes, and then they're going to want to consume that compute as a utility.”
John Hoffman, acting CEO of Quake AI, illustrated this point by describing an AI navigating the web for pizza; he stated that using the web interface is "insanity compared to if DoorDash just created an API that is queryable," noting that the latter would use one thousandth of the compute.
Hoffman emphasized that agents interact with data and APIs, not applications or interfaces, concluding, "Just give me the raw data. That's what it wants."
This focus contrasts with industry trends; TollBit's State of the Bots report indicated that by the close of 2025, AI bot visits were projected to reach approximately one for every 31 human visits, up from one in 200 at the start of the year.
