# China Merchants Bank Wins CNCF End User Case Study Contest for Unifying AI Training and Inference on Kubernetes

DevFeed: [China Merchants Bank Wins CNCF End User Case Study Contest for Unifying AI Training and Inference on Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/china-merchants-bank-wins-cncf-end-user-case-study-contest-for-unifying-ai-training-and-inference-on-kubernetes-4594.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2026/09/07/china-merchants-bank-wins-cncf-end-user-case-study-contest-for-unifying-ai-training-and-inference-on-kubernetes/>)

Author: Haley White

Published: 2026-09-08T01:54:31Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Cloud Native Computing Foundation](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/cloud-native-computing-foundation.md>)

Topics: [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [AI Platform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-platform.md>), [AI Inference](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-inference.md>), [Training AI Models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/training-ai-models.md>), [kueue](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kueue.md>), [Fine-tuning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/fine-tuning.md>), [Cloud Native Ecosystem](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-native-ecosystem.md>), [datacenter](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datacenter.md>)

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## AI overview

China Merchants Bank won a CNCF case-study contest for a Kubernetes-based AI platform that shares nearly 10,000 accelerator cards across training, fine-tuning, and online inference. The bank reports increased average accelerator utilization and lower inference costs.

## Source excerpt

New cloud native platform lifted average accelerator compute utilization from 35% to more than 60% and cut inference cost per 1 million tokens by more than 60% Key Highlights SHANGHAI, China - KubeCon + CloudNativeCon +...