SkyPilot, from Databricks' cofounder, raises $20M to be the Switzerland of AI compute

all five founders of SkyPilot pose for a photo (Credit: Courtesy of SkyPilot)

Databricks cofounder Ion Stoica can explain what his latest startup does to a kindergartner on the fly.

The basis for his new company SkyPilot, which he cofounded with Zongheng Yang, is this: companies need computers to run, different providers sell those computers, switching between them is painful and expensive, so SkyPilot makes it easy to use any of them, meaning “more compute, better compute, cheaper compute.”