In addition to Sequoia’s $100,000 contribution for the year, other public sponsors include Andreessen Horowitz, which donated as part of its inaugural open source AI grant program last year, while the likes of AWS, Nvidia, and others have collectively helped vLLM cover its compute resources — which are not insignificant.

“For vLLM, we intend to use the fund to cover our continuous integration testing and benchmark suite,” Mo said. “These suites, running on GPUs, are expensive to maintain but critical to ensure the performance and correctness of vLLM for production usage.”