Hedgehog

Hedgehog builds open source AI network infrastructure that pairs the SONiC network operating system with intelligent automation. The company's platform is designed to let firms run high-performance computing and GPU fabrics at scale without relying on specialised network engineers. It works with commodity hardware and Kubernetes environments, and is aimed at cloud teams running AI training, fine-tuning and inference workloads, as well as edge compute and distributed cloud infrastructure.

The company's technical remit spans network operating systems, network automation, GPU fabric networking, congestion management and lossless data transport. Its product, the Hedgehog open source network platform, is positioned as a way to give edge and distributed cloud deployments a cloud-like operating experience while avoiding vendor lock-in. Zipline is a named customer.

Hedgehog states open source principles and freedom from vendor lock-in among its guiding commitments, together with flexibility to build on commodity hardware and collaborative relationships with customers. The company is headquartered in Seattle, USA. Further detail on the platform and its codebase is published at githedgehog.com.