Shanghai – September 10, 2026 -- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has added nine new Silver members, including telecommunications operator SoftBank Corp. and AI infrastructure provider Crusoe, expanding a global community that now counts nearly 800 members, over 300,000 contributors, more than 250 projects and participants in 190 countries.
SoftBank Corp. and Crusoe anchor a cohort built for AI production infrastructure
SoftBank Corp. (TOKYO: 9434), which operates telecommunications and IT businesses across Japan and internationally, is expanding its AI computing infrastructure and cloud services under its "Activate AI for Society" strategy. Crusoe, an AI factory company vertically integrated across energy, compute and cloud, contributes Crusoe Cloud, a GPU-powered managed inference and infrastructure-as-a-service platform with intelligent orchestration for AI training and high-performance computing.
Six members target cost reduction, sovereignty and code efficiency
Ascendra Networks brings live vertical scaling to virtual machines and Kubernetes nodes, claiming up to 5x higher compute efficiency and cloud cost reductions exceeding 70% for agentic workstations, stateful applications and HPC clusters. CodeVisionary's Performance Efficiency Platform uses an autonomous model to eliminate computational waste in legacy and AI-generated code. AlphaBravo supplies Kubernetes lifecycle management and hardened containers for connected and disconnected environments, while Valarian Technologies Ltd builds sovereign digital infrastructure by deploying AI on hardened Kubernetes. DHH, a European hosting and cloud computing holding company, adds scalable hosting and AI connectivity services, and Infino AI, built by the creators of OpenSearch, offers an open source retrieval engine running full-text, vector search and SQL over Parquet on object storage, delivering queries across a billion documents at a tenth of the typical cost.
Legora joins as CNCF's newest Silver End User Member
Legora, a legal AI platform builder with engineering offices in Stockholm, New York and London, runs its multi-region collaborative AI platform on Kubernetes using CNCF projects Argo CD, Kargo, Crossplane, Cilium and Kyverno. The company is growing its platform and infrastructure teams to contribute back to CNCF projects.
CNCF Executive Director Jonathan Bryce said the shift from AI experimentation to continuous production inference is pushing organizations to extract more value from existing infrastructure rather than add compute, with open source communities building the orchestration, observability and infrastructure layers required for that efficiency.
CNCF Silver Members receive benefits valued at over $300,000 USD, including training subscriptions, event sponsorship discounts, access to The Linux Foundation's legal resources and participation in project working groups.