In less than a year since its launch, Australian generative AI content production platform, Leonardo.Ai, has reportedly generated over 700 million images and trained more than 400,000 custom generative AI models.

The platform, which aids users in generating ideas and hyperrealistic images for various industries including gaming, media, entertainment and marketing, has seen a rapid influx of users.

To manage this surge in user growth, Leonardo.Ai migrated its workloads to Amazon Web Services (AWS) from its previous cloud provider. AWS's global infrastructure has enabled Leonardo.Ai to handle the continuous increase in user demand. The platform utilises custom Amazon silicon/processors for low-cost and high-performance generative AI inference and for running several large language models.

By using Amazon EC2 Inf2, Leonardo.Ai claims to have achieved a 60% reduction in inferencing costs and accelerated their language model inference speeds by up to 35%. This move has made Leonardo.Ai the first startup in the Asia-Pacific to participate in the global AWS Generative AI Accelerator.

In response to the expanding demand for AI-generated production-quality images, Leonardo.Ai recently launched an iOS mobile application and created an API. In September, the company integrated its API with its first enterprise customer, Razer, to deliver Axon Create.

"The generative AI space is evolving quickly, and AWS is helping us shape this industry with its technical support, business development, and mentorship," Peter Runham, co-founder and CTO of Leonardo.Ai, said. "Our rapid growth is only possible by scaling our workloads on AWS to meet rising user demand. In less than a year, our users have generated an astonishing 700 million images on our platform. If you spent just one second looking at each image, it would take you over 19 years of non-stop viewing to see them all."

Bratin Saha, vice president of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at AWS, expressed excitement about being part of Leonardo.Ai's rapid growth.

"Australia is a nation that produces exceptional technology talent," he said.

Quyen Quach, vice president of Software at Razer, who spoke about the partnership with Leonardo.Ai, said the ambition was to allow customers to easily personalise their gaming setups.

"Partnering with Leonardo.Ai was a natural fit when it came to Axon Create," he said.