We are proud to share that Vultr has been named an Emerging Visionary in the Gartner® Emerging Market Quadrant (eMQ) for Generative AI Specialized Cloud Infrastructure.
We believe that Vultr’s inclusion can be attributed to our success in empowering enterprises with the infrastructure they need to scale and deploy their generative AI workloads worldwide.
What is the Gartner Emerging Market Quadrant?
According to the research: “the generative AI specialized cloud infrastructure market includes the cloud service providers focused on delivering optimized infrastructure for model training, inference and serving. In this domain, Gartner identifies major hyperscaler vendors and specialized cloud vendors focusing on AI-optimized infrastructure.These Emerging Market Quadrants can help organizations navigate fast-moving markets.”
How Does the eMQ Work?
The eMQ uses a 2×2 matrix format and plots vendors based on two key dimensions:
- X-axis: Current features
- Y-axis: Future potential
When vendors introduce updates or innovations that meaningfully shape the market’s trajectory, their quadrant placement can change accordingly.
Why we think Vultr was placed in the Gartner Emerging Market Quadrant
We believe Vultr’s placement in the Gartner Emerging Market Quadrant reflects a broader shift in how enterprises approach the infrastructure behind their AI strategies. As organizations move from early experimentation to global deployment, they are reassessing what they truly need from an AI-ready cloud platform and envisioning what that platform must look like in the years ahead. They are asking:
- Can we access the high-performance compute we need without running into capacity limits?
- Do we have the flexibility to scale from a single GPU to large clusters without vendor lock-in?
- Can we run AI workloads globally with low latency and the proper data controls?
- Do our networks provide the secure, high-bandwidth connectivity that distributed AI pipelines demand?
These considerations are no longer niche concerns. They sit at the center of every serious AI deployment strategy and are shaping expectations for what tomorrow’s infrastructure should enable.
From our perspective, Vultr’s recognition in the eMQ highlights how independent cloud platforms are evolving to meet these emerging requirements on a global scale – and the particularly prominent role that Vultr is playing in the industry-wide paradigm shift.
Read the complete Innovation Guide for Generative AI Specialized Cloud Infrastructure.
Sources:
Gartner®, Innovation Guide for Generative AI Specialized Cloud Infrastructure, November 2025.
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