What Happened?
The teams decision to sell to Walmart did not come easily. With millions using the service, suddenly competition from larger players offering “free” use to include Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and NVIDIA created a challenge fundraising for server growth. LiquidSky.tv was no longer the only "GPU VM Cloud". Selling became the only strategy in the face of “free services” offered from the deep pocketed competition.
Verizon, Samsung, and Walmart were using LiquidSky's GPU Cloud. Reportedly Samsung, Apple, Amazon, and Walmart began competing discussions to acquire LiquidSky.tv. At the time Walmart was considering competing with Amazon's AWS. Walmart instead appeared to have partnered with Microsoft Azure on all fronts to compete with Amazon.
Some of the liquidsky.tv tech stack now exists on platforms such as Xcloud, Geforce Now within V-GPU, MX-GPU, and GPU container services used for everything from Cloud Gaming to Ai.
What's Next?
VISIT Stim.ioIn 2015 LiquidSky.tv was the only GPU cloud doing multi-tenant virtualization. Most were BareMetal only aside from LiquidSky.tv. Back then GPUs were used mostly for gaming. Fast-forward to 2025, GPUs are offered B2B by nearly every major Cloud Provider including AWS, Azure, GCE, and many more.
Consumer facing GPU Clouds also now exist for Cloud Gaming by Xbox XCloud, NVIDIA Geforce Now, Playstation Plus. All offer Cloud Gaming Containers (NETFLIX style services with a limited catalog of games), but none offer Cloud PCs (A full windows PC where you can install and run any program or game). In a way they are all game consoles, none are gaming PCs. Game consoles are being replaced by mobile gaming and gaming PCs. Many stores don't even bother selling Xbox consoles anymore.
Some members of the LiquidSky.tv team got together to start a new platform called "Stim". Unlike LiquidSky.tv which was a hardware based solution, Stim.io runs on top of cloud providers such as AWS so it doesn't have the scaling issues of www.LiquidSky.tv
Starting by running on top of AWS and Azure, then as it grows offering a hybrid cloud with some of it's own custom datacenters where it can further reduce cost. None of the scaling bottlenecks which forced us to sell LiquidSky.tv