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Voltage Park was named a reference NVIDIA Cloud Partner in November 2025 and publishes on-demand H100 pricing starting at $1.99 per GPU-hour, positioning itself as one of the cheapest transparent rate cards in the neocloud pack. Named customers include Cursor, Prime Intellect, Imbue, Luma AI, Covariant, Phind, Dream3D, and Caltech.\n\nIn January 2026 Voltage Park merged with Lightning AI to form a combined training and inference platform, with former Voltage Park CEO Ozan Kaya becoming President of the merged entity. 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