MinIO develops open-source, software-defined object storage infrastructure designed for artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads, as well as enterprise unstructured data. Founded in 2014, the company's technology is licensed under the GNU AGPL v3.0 and is engineered for high-performance environments.
The company's primary product is AIStor, an exabyte-scale, S3-compatible object store that provides storage for AI training, inference, and analytics. A commercial subscription version, AIStor Enterprise, is also available. MinIO's technology is widely adopted across several key industries. It is used by more than half of the Fortune 500, all 10 of the largest U.S. banks, and 9 of the 10 largest global automakers.
MinIO operates in technical domains including object storage, data lakehouse architectures, and AI/ML infrastructure. The company engages in partnerships with firms such as NVIDIA and maintains a community-focused approach around its open-source projects.
