Empower
Empower, formerly known as LogUnify, is a serverless LLM hosting platform based in San Mateo, CA, specializing in cost-effective deployment of fine-tuned models with a focus on B2B analytics.
Company Overview
Empower, formerly known as LogUnify, is based in San Mateo, CA, and operates within the B2B analytics industry. With a small team of just two members, Empower offers a serverless LLM hosting platform designed to deliver cost-effective performance. Empower participated in the Y-Combinator S23 batch and primarily serves regions across the United States and Canada.
Services
Empower's main service is a serverless LLM hosting platform for fine-tuned models, which drastically reduces serving costs by more than 80% compared to dedicated instances. The platform accommodates any PEFT-based LoRA models, offering flexibility for users to train on any platform and deploy with Empower. The pricing model includes both a subscription fee and a usage-based fee calculated per token.
Pricing Plans
Empower offers several pricing tiers to meet various needs. The Free tier provides $10 life-time model usage credit, 10 requests per minute inference rate limiting, and one active LoRA deployment. The Startup tier costs $250/month and includes $100 monthly usage credits, 100 requests per minute, and up to 10 active deployments. The Growing tier costs $750/month with $250 monthly usage credits, 250 requests per minute, and up to 50 active deployments. The Enterprise tier offers custom pricing with unlimited LoRAs, unlimited rate limits, custom base models, and private VPC deployment.
Product Features
Empower supports hosting models like Llama-2-7b-chat, Llama-2-13-chat, and Mistral-7b-instruct. Users pay $0.4 per 1 million tokens for models up to 7B and $0.6 per 1 million tokens for models up to 13B. The platform structure includes a combination of subscription and token-based pricing, which allows for efficient cost management based on actual usage rather than GPU time.
DSensei Key Driver Analysis
Empower offers DSensei, an open-source AI-powered engine for key driver analysis. DSensei utilizes statistical and AI technologies to analyze data segments, group correlated ones, and highlight key drivers of metric fluctuations within seconds to minutes. It complements traditional business intelligence tools by uncovering hidden insights in data that are often missed by conventional methods.