OctoAI Review: The Apache TVM Startup That NVIDIA Acquired and Shut Down in 5 Weeks

OctoAI (formerly OctoML) raised $132 million, reached a $900M valuation, and built an inference platform serving 25,000+ developers — then NVIDIA acquired it and shut down all commercial services within 5 weeks. The story of OctoAI is the clearest cautionary tale about inference API dependency in the AI infrastructure space.