Axine Labs Partners With CIQ to Power Unquantized Orbital AI Inference on Hardened Bare-Metal GPU Infrastructure

Axine Labs has joined the CIQ Startup Program and standardized its core high-performance compute and AI inference infrastructure on RLC Pro AI, the GPU-optimized Enterprise Linux operating system built by CIQ, the founding support and services partner behind Rocky Linux.

Processing multi-gigabyte hyperspectral satellite cubes, synthetic aperture radar time series, and large-scale geospatial vision models requires immense throughput and numerical precision. Many cloud AI providers cut compute costs by aggressively quantizing models, compressing numerical weights in ways that degrade subtle spectral absorption signatures critical for mineral identification or regulatory deforestation thresholds. At the same time, mining, defense, and sovereign infrastructure clients require strict data security guarantees that standard multi-tenant public cloud wrappers struggle to certify.

By building on CIQ's RLC Pro AI across bare-metal dual-NVIDIA H100 GPU infrastructure, Axine Labs runs its Lisaris spectral and geospatial models completely unquantized at full mathematical precision. RLC Pro AI ships out of the box with FIPS 140-3 cryptographic validation, DISA STIG security hardening, and CIS Benchmarks, paired with a kernel, driver, and CUDA stack purpose-tuned for bare-metal GPU workloads. Through the partnership, Axine Labs gains direct access to CIQ's kernel engineering team, zero-downtime security patching, and long-term enterprise support.

"RLC Pro AI gives us a hardened Enterprise Linux foundation with direct kernel-level engineering support built in," said David Adeyemo, Founder and CEO of Axine Labs. "Running unquantized models on bare-metal H100s ensures we never sacrifice spectral precision for compute speed, while FIPS 140-3 and DISA STIG compliance give our mining, government, and enterprise partners the security posture they demand."

The infrastructure partnership gained widespread national media coverage across Vanguard, ThisDay, Daily Trust, and P.M. News. Following the deployment, CIQ published a joint enterprise case study detailing how Axine Labs executes full-precision earth observation workloads on dual-H100 bare metal with RLC Pro AI, available at ciq.com/customer-story/ai-axine-labs.