Enterprise AI infrastructure company TrueFoundry has acquired machine learning operations (MLOps) player Seldon AI to provide a cloud-agnostic control plane for large-scale language models and autonomous agents. SDx Central can be revealed.
Financial details were not disclosed. However, the deal allows TrueFoundry to act as a gateway and control plane on model servers like Seldon’s flagship core product, creating an integrated and independent alternative native AI tool bundled with hyperscale platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Azure.
TrueFoundry’s gateway plane essentially handles the stateless intelligence layer for areas such as prompt routing, agent gateway tool auditing, and API key management. Seldon’s integration components, on the other hand, handle the actual execution management of heavy open source large-scale language models (LLMs) and custom traditional ML models within Kubernetes.
“Enterprise AI teams run traditional ML workflows and agent workflows in parallel, managing them as two separate infrastructure problems,” said Nikunj Bajaj, co-founder and CEO of TrueFoundry. “Seldon has built the production-grade MLOps foundation that the world’s most demanding enterprises rely on. TrueFoundry brings the control plane to the world of agent AI, and together we will give enterprise teams a single place to deploy, observe, and manage agent AI every step of the way.”
Founded in 2014 by Alex Housley, UK-based Seldon counts backers including AlbionVC, Bright Pixel and Cambridge Innovation Capital. Its customer base spans financial institutions, healthcare providers, retailers, and other sectors where real-time inference and strict data governance are non-negotiable.
Initially focused on machine learning deployment tools, we’ve since iterated on cloud-agnostic foundations from inference to agent AI workloads. Seldon’s platform allows users to orchestrate model components as Kubernetes microservices and deploy them locally or at enterprise scale while reliably monitoring every byte of data.
With its Kubernetes native foundation, TrueFoundry is a natural fit for TrueFoundry. TrueFoundry provides joint customers with a single end-to-end platform for running both traditional ML and autonomous AI workloads in production, with an AI gateway on top to handle the agent layer, route prompts, and manage API access.
The San Francisco, California-based company claims that its AI gateway product already processes more than 1 trillion tokens per day. With Seldon on board, the company envisions the enhanced service becoming a “command center for enterprise AI.”
“TrueFoundry and Seldon have been building toward the same goal: bringing enterprise AI to production reliably and at scale,” said Mark Stripp, vice president of go-to-market at Seldon. “This acquisition gives our customers a leap forward opportunity: a single platform that handles everything from real-time ML inference to the ability to accelerate our customers’ agent AI needs. All based on the same Kubernetes infrastructure that our customers have been building for years.”
