Charles Kantor, cofounder and former CEO of Paris-based agentic AI startup H Company, has launched a new venture called Blackfuel. The company is described as an AI neocloud focused on inference workloads—the stage of AI computing where trained models are run to make predictions, rather than the training phase.
Kantor led H Company, which builds autonomous agents, before stepping down as CEO. His new startup enters the AI cloud market, where providers offer specialised hardware and software for running AI models efficiently. The source gives few details about Blackfuel's technology, customers, or funding.
The focus on inference workloads suggests Blackfuel is targeting a growing segment of AI infrastructure, as companies increasingly need cost-effective ways to run models in production. Neoclouds typically differentiate themselves by offering optimised infrastructure for specific AI tasks, and Blackfuel appears to be following that playbook.