Hammerspace Partners with Yition.ai to Advance AI Storage in China

SAN MATEO, Calif., March 5, 2025 – Hammerspace today announced a strategic partnership in China with Yition.ai, a leader in making hyperscale AI infrastructure accessible and efficient.

This collaboration combines Hammerspace’s proven high-performance Global Data Platform for object and file storage with Yition.ai’s mission to revolutionize AI storage economics and accessibility offering new storage and data orchestration strategies for the massive unstructured data generated from AI usage by cloud providers, high-performance computing and hyperscalers.

The partnership combines Yition.ai’s cost-effective and scalable AI storage solutions through deep integration of hardware and software optimizations, with Hammerspace’s data platform which provides the high-performance data path to power large-scale compute clusters efficiently, the data orchestration to unify data sources, and standards-based approach to use the compute, storage, and networking infrastructure of the customer’s choice.

As recent developments with large language models (LLMs) turn the page on the economics of AI and portend ever-greater AI models, this approach expands access to the distributed data sets needed to fuel AI while reducing infrastructure capital expenditure and providing high-performance storage that meets the demanding needs of modern AI workloads.

Together Yition.ai and Hammerspace address the growing challenge of managing massive multimodal datasets across distributed environments. Current LLMs utilize only about 3% of the data generated by humans, but organizations increasingly work with video, audio, and other rich media formats that comprise 97% of today’s internet traffic.

Traditional storage approaches struggle to keep pace with this explosion of unstructured data and the performance needed to use large compute clusters efficiently, especially as AI models proliferate. Yition.ai is strategically positioned to meet this challenge by scaling AI storage to support the massive volume and the diversified nature of data essential for next-generation applications. At the same time, Hammerspace’s solution, recently validated through Meta’s LLM deployment managing 24k GPU clusters, provides the foundation for next-generation AI infrastructure.

“This partnership with Yition.ai is a game-changer for AI infrastructure in China,” said David Flynn, CEO of Hammerspace. “Enterprise AI, hyperscalers, and HPC all face the same challenge—keeping GPUs fed with data at full speed without costly, specialized infrastructure. By integrating Hammerspace’s Global Data Platform with Yition.ai’s cost-efficient AI solutions, we’re not just eliminating data bottlenecks and maximizing compute utilization — we’re also simplifying operations. Organizations can now keep GPUs busy without burdening their teams with data janitorial work, freeing them up to focus on innovation instead of infrastructure maintenance.”

“Yition.ai is committed to drastically reducing the cost and complexity of AI storage infrastructure,” said Wenhao Wu, CEO of Yition.ai. “By partnering with Hammerspace, we’re bringing together deep hardware and software optimization expertise to deliver high-performance storage solutions at a fraction of traditional costs.”

The partnership delivers several key innovations:

• Cost-effective scaling through hardware-software optimization, object storage and hyperscale NAS architectures.
• Automated data orchestration for multimodal AI workloads.
• Advanced data automation for cleaning, organization, and synthesis.
• Seamless support for vertical industry applications including autonomous driving and robotics.
• Efficient resource utilization that significantly reduces capital expenditure.

Customers working with Hammerspace and Yition.ai will benefit from proven architectures that scale from departmental AI projects to massive production deployments while maintaining optimal cost efficiency.

The partnership in China comes as Hammerspace Asia continues to grow its commitment to the market. The company currently has more than 20 employees in the region and plans to continue growing.

About Hammerspace

Hammerspace is radically changing how unstructured data is used and preserved. Our Global Data Platform unifies unstructured data across edge, data centers, and clouds. It provides extreme parallel performance for AI, GPUs, and high-speed data analytics, and orchestrates data to any location and any storage system. This eliminates data silos and makes data an instantly accessible resource for users, applications, and compute clusters, no matter where they are located.

Source: Hammerspace