These 20 companies are paving the way for the AI superhighway, continually rolling out a slew of next-generation innovative AI and cloud offerings along with having the deep investment pockets to match.
There are 20 cloud companies that are taking command of the AI era with a slew of next-generation cloud and AI innovation alongside deep investment pockets to match.
From cloud GPUs that accelerate AI workflows and the cloud infrastructure that house AI solutions to large language model (LLM) providers and next-level AI agent technology, these 20 companies are paving the road for the AI superhighway.
With cloud computing being one of the most popular delivery options for AI and generative AI at scale, companies like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and Salesforce are all forces to be reckoned with in the AI era.
However, red-hot cloud AI upstarts like Cloudera, CoreWeave, Lambda and Spectro Cloud are competing and partnering with the major cloud providers as customer demand for business-outcome AI solutions are in high demand.
The lines between cloud computing and AI are being blurred as both markets often go hand-in-hand.
For example, worldwide enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services reached $330 billion in 2024, an increase of roughly $60 billion in total annual sales compared with 2023 and an increase of $102 billion from 2022, according to data from Synergy Research Group.
“Our assessment is that since ChatGPT was launched, GenAI has been responsible for at least half of the increase in cloud service revenues,” John Dinsdale, a chief analyst at Synergy Research Group, told CRN earlier this year. “That has come from either newly launched GenAI/GPU services or from AI-driven improvements to existing cloud services.”
As part of CRN’s AI 100 list, here are the 20 cloud computing companies that are leading the AI revolution in 2025.
Aible
Arijit Sengupta
Founder, CEO
Aible says its enterprise AI offering guarantees business impact in 30 days by providing GenAI for analytics, automated AI-readiness assessment and data exploration. Aible has partnered with Google Cloud to enable customers to build, train and deploy GenAI models on their own data.
Amazon Web Services
Matt Garman
CEO
AWS’ AI portfolio ranges from its cloud infrastructure, Trainium AI chips and Inferentia accelerators to its GenAI platform Amazon Bedrock and Nova foundational models. The company is pouring billions into expanding AI hardware, software and services that let customers build and scale AI solutions.
Broadcom
Hock Tan
President, CEO
Broadcom delivers AI networking, connectivity offerings and customer AI accelerators as it seeks to revolutionize the industry alongside its private cloud software subsidiary VMware. In the first quarter of 2025 alone, Broadcom generated $4.1 billion in AI sales, an increase of 77 percent year over year.
Cloudera
Charles Sansbury
CEO
The hybrid cloud platform and data analytics provider is investing heavily in AI as it surpassed the $1 billion annual revenue mark in 2024. This includes millions in developing new AI assistants and its retrieval-augmented generation studio offering to acquiring Verta’s operational AI platform.
CoreWeave
Mike Intrator
CEO
CoreWeave is one of the hottest cloud AI companies due to its focus on providing cloud-based GPUs and software for AI developers. The Nvidia-backed company owns data centers across the U.S. and Europe with cloud offerings built from the ground up for AI workloads.
Dataminr
Ted Bailey
Founder, CEO
Dataminr created an AI platform for discovering real-time events, risks and threats in public data. Its multimodal fusion AI pulls from over 1 million public data sources to synthesize data spanning text, image, video, audio and sensor signals. Its ReGenAI offering combines predictive and GenAI to describe breaking events.
Google Cloud
Thomas Kurian
CEO
Google Cloud has built an arsenal of AI hardware, software, LLMs, data center availability and cybersecurity offerings that helped elevate the company to a $48 billion run rate. It is integrating its Gemini AI technology throughout the Google Cloud Platform and Workspace collaboration suite.
HashiCorp, An IBM Company
Dave McJannet
CEO
HashiCorp provides technology that automates and secures the infrastructure that underpins hybrid cloud applications and GenAI. The hybrid cloud automation specialist provides tools like Terraform, Nomad, Consul and Vault to automate and manage a customer’s multi-cloud environment.
H2O.ai
Sri Ambati
Founder, CEO
H2O.ai provides open source GenAI and predictive AI platforms. Its open-source GenAI and Enterprise h2oGPTe, combined with Document AI and autoML Driverless AI, has helped transform more than 20,000 organizations, including over half of the Fortune 500. H2O.ai has raised over $250 million from investors.
IBM
Arvind Krishna
Chairman, CEO
From AI assistants and models to its AI-tailored infrastructure, IBM is a global leader in hybrid cloud AI. Watsonx is IBM’s portfolio of AI products that accelerate the impact of GenAI in core workflows to drive productivity. To boost its AI ambitions, IBM has acquired DataStax and HashiCorp to accelerate adoption.
Lambda
Stephen Balaban
Co-Founder, CEO
Lambda provides infrastructure, cloud services and software for the training and inferencing of AI models. The company’s AI portfolio includes the Lambda Cloud platform, Lambda Model Inference API and Lambda Chat AI Assistant. Lambda has raised $863 million to date.
Microsoft
Satya Nadella
Chairman, CEO
Microsoft owns a broad cloud AI portfolio that spans Azure infrastructure, cybersecurity, PCs and Copilot to let customers create and deploy their own AI solutions via Azure AI Foundry. The world’s largest software company is investing in agentic AI, with various agents now available via Microsoft 365 Copilot.
MongoDB
Dev Ittycheria
President, CEO
MongoDB’s data platform is built to power AI applications with integrated capabilities for operational data, search, real-time analytics and AI-powered retrieval. Millions of developers and over 50,000 customers rely on MongoDB for their critical applications. In February, MongoDB acquired Voyage AI.
Nerdio
Vadim Vladimirskiy
Co-Founder, CEO
Nerdio helps Microsoft customers manage and optimize cloud and AI technologies, with Nerdio adding its own AI capabilities, including its AI-powered assistant AssistPro and the Nerdio Manager for MSPs. These features lower Azure compute and storage costs via automation.
Oracle
Safra Catz
CEO
Businesses leverage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to run demanding AI workloads faster and more reliably. Its Fusion Applications enable customers to use AI to break down organizational silos, standardize processes and manage finance, HR, supply chain, manufacturing and customer data on a single platform.
PagerDuty
Jennifer Tejada
Chairperson, CEO
The PagerDuty Operations Cloud combines AIOps, automation and incident management with a powerful GenAI assistant to create a flexible and scalable platform to increase innovation, reduce cost and mitigate the risk of operational failure. It also has launched AI agents to handle aspects of the operational life cycle.
Red Hat
Matt Hicks
President, CEO
Red Hat’s open-source software and AI offerings include its foundation model platform RHEL AI, InstructLab and OpenShift AI to develop and train AI models across distributed Kubernetes environments. It acquired Neural Magic in 2025, a pioneer in software and algorithms that accelerate GenAI inference workloads.
Salesforce
Marc Benioff
Chair, CEO
Salesforce delivers extensible AI offerings grounded in the Salesforce CRM Platform that allow customers to create customizable and predictive business-outcome AI solutions. Key products include Salesforce Einstein, which provides conversational UI for AI in every application or workflow.
Snowflake
Sridhar Ramaswamy
CEO
Snowflake brings AI that enables customers to run analytical workflows on unstructured data, develop agentic applications and train models using structured and unstructured data. It has opened its Silicon Valley AI Hub and committed $200 million to startups building AI solutions on Snowflake.
Spectro Cloud
Tenry Fu
Co-Founder, CEO
Spectro Cloud lets customers deploy and manage Kubernetes in production at scale with its Palette management platform along with its Palette Edge offering that features edge computing AI capabilities. In late 2024, the company received $75 million in funding.