CNCF Adds SoftBank, Crusoe Among Nine New Silver Members
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.