Mount Thor raises $45 million for Apple-based AI cloud expansion
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The funding introduces a specialized Apple-based infrastructure provider, but disclosed evidence does not establish market-wide impact.
Mount Thor raises $45 million for Apple-based AI cloud expansion
Mount Thor has raised $45 million across seed and Series A equity rounds to expand cloud infrastructure built on Apple hardware. CRV and Conviction co-led the Series A, while Chad Byers and Offline Ventures co-led the seed round. The San Francisco company also secured an undisclosed amount of non-dilutive financing for hardware purchases. It plans to add computing capacity and hire staff.
The company offers remote access to macOS environments for AI research and development. Its proposed uses include training computer-use models through reinforcement learning, testing agents, running long-lived tasks, and building and simulating Apple-device applications. It also plans to support inference with open-source models optimized for Apple silicon. Mount Thor reported deploying its first data center in less than six months. The expansion adds a specialized provider to an infrastructure market where developers need access to the operating systems and hardware their software targets.
For builders, the offering could provide a way to test agents against macOS software without maintaining their own Apple equipment. For investors, the distinction between funding and demand matters: the article reports the company's plans and initial data center deployment, but does not disclose customer counts, revenue, capacity or utilization. Those measures would help assess whether demand for managed macOS environments can support continued infrastructure expansion.