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Neurometric AI and LumaDock Partner to Cut OpenClaw Inference Costs by Up to 90%

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Partnership gives OpenClaw’s 3.2 million users a turnkey stack for running always-on AI agents at a fraction of frontier model costs

NEW YORK and LONDON, June 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Neurometric AI, the inference orchestration company behind ClawPack and the SLM Marketplace, and LumaDock, the VPS hosting provider with a purpose-built OpenClaw deployment template, today announced a partnership to make cost-efficient OpenClaw deployments accessible to developers worldwide.

OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent platform with over 346,000 GitHub stars and 3.2 million users, routes every task to whatever frontier model a user has configured. The result is inference bills that routinely reach hundreds of dollars per month, and in documented cases, thousands. The partnership between Neurometric and LumaDock addresses both sides of the problem: where OpenClaw runs, and what it runs on.

LumaDock provides a purpose-built OpenClaw VPS template that eliminates the friction of self-hosting. Users deploy a server, select the OpenClaw template, and the agent runtime is pre-installed and running on Ubuntu 24.04 before they ever SSH in. Plans start at $1.99 per month. “What makes this partnership compelling is that it solves a problem our customers are actively asking about,” said Andrei Romanescu, Chief Marketing Officer at LumaDock. “OpenClaw on a LumaDock VPS is already a clean, reliable setup. Adding ClawPack gives users a clear path to sustainable inference costs without sacrificing performance.”

Neurometric’s ClawPack sits alongside the user’s existing frontier model as an OpenAI-compatible provider. It intercepts routine sub-tasks — classification, extraction, formatting, summarization — and routes them to task-specific Small Language Models rather than frontier APIs. These models are purpose-built for narrow jobs and run at a fraction of the compute cost of general-purpose frontier models. The cost advantage is architectural: a model fine-tuned for a specific task is genuinely cheaper to run than a trillion-parameter model doing the same work. Users report reducing their frontier model calls by 60 to 90 percent without a meaningful change in output quality.

“OpenClaw users are running serious workflows and getting hit with serious bills,” said Calvin Cooper, Co-Founder of Neurometric AI. “ClawPack is built on the premise that most agentic work does not require the most expensive model. It requires the right model. Partnering with LumaDock means we can offer OpenClaw users a complete solution from day one, not just a cost optimization layer they have to figure out themselves.”

ClawPack’s free tier covers 100 million tokens per month with no credit card required. Together, the two products form a complete stack: reliable always-on hosting from LumaDock and cost-efficient inference routing from Neurometric. Joint tutorial content will be published across both platforms in the coming weeks.

Availability

ClawPack is available today at marketplace.neurometric.ai/clawpack. The LumaDock OpenClaw VPS template is available at lumadock.com/openclaw-vps-hosting.

About Neurometric AI

New York-based, Neurometric AI builds inference orchestration and task-specific Small Language Models for developers and enterprises running agentic AI workflows. Its SLM Marketplace offers over 125 purpose-built models across more than a dozen professional domains. ClawPack, Neurometric’s OpenClaw integration layer, routes routine sub-tasks to specialist SLMs to reduce inference costs while maintaining accuracy. Neurometric is backed by Encoded VC, Everywhere Ventures, Vermilion Cliffs Ventures, MuVentures, Abstraction Capital, and others.

About LumaDock

LumaDock is a high-performance VPS hosting provider offering NVMe-powered cloud servers with unmetered bandwidth, full root access, and 24/7 support. LumaDock operates Tier III+ data center infrastructure and serves developers, businesses, and enterprises globally. Its purpose-built OpenClaw VPS template makes self-hosted AI agent deployment accessible in seconds. LumaDock is a brand of LifeinCloud LTD, headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Reddit Beats the Wall Street Journal. New 5W Research Finds the Prestige Press is Losing Influence Inside AI-generated Brand Answers.

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MIAMI, June 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — 5W, the AI Communications Firm, today published Who AI Cites Now — a research report mapping which publications, platforms, and sources actually shape the answers ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews produce when an American consumer asks about a brand.

The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, and the Financial Times do not appear in the top twenty cited domains in the 5W Citation Source Audit. Forbes is the only U.S. business publication that does — ranked #18 at an estimated 1.38% citation share. Reuters, at #7 and an estimated 2.27%, outranks it.

Why it matters: Most PR budgets are still priced for the publications that win clicks. The engines that now sit between a brand and its buyers are citing a different list — and the gap is structural, not cyclical.

Three findings:

Wikipedia (~13.15%) and Reddit (~11.97%) together account for more than a quarter of every ChatGPT citation in the United States. Only ~12% of AI citations overlap with Google’s top 10 results (Ahrefs, 15,000-query analysis) — ranking on Google does not produce AI visibility. An estimated 35% of consumers now begin product discovery inside an AI engine, per the 5W First-Stop study.

“Communications leaders are still buying placements in publications that no longer drive the answer their buyer is reading. The hierarchy is being repriced in real time — and most brands have not measured the move.” — Ronn Torossian, Founder & Chairman, 5W

Full report: https://www.5wpr.com/research/who-ai-cites-now/

Methodology: Citation Source Audit synthesizing nine independent datasets covering more than 800 million tracked AI citations across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Directional estimates — not a live query audit.

About 5W

5W is the AI Communications Firm, building brand authority inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews — alongside earned media, digital, and influencer channels. Founded 2003. Top U.S. PR Agency by O’Dwyer’s. Agency of the Year, American Business Awards®. 2026 Top Place to Work in Communications, Ragan. Digiday WorkLife Employer of the Year. 5wpr.com.

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CIQ expands Fuzzball to full multi-cloud so AI and HPC teams ship faster and spend less, with absolute workflow reproducibility and portability

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Fuzzball intelligently meta-orchestrates AI and HPC workloads across CoreWeave, AWS, GCP, OCI, Azure and on-premises infrastructure from one control plane

RENO, Nev., June 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — CIQ, the enterprise software company behind Rocky Linux and the Fuzzball AI and HPC orchestration platform, today announced full multi-cloud support for Fuzzball across CoreWeave, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Microsoft Azure. Enterprise teams define an AI training, inference or HPC workflow once and execute it across any of these environments or on-premises infrastructure, with Fuzzball routing each job automatically to the optimal destination based on cost, performance and data locality.

Enterprise AI and HPC teams pay a compounding price for every cloud (or system) they run on: rebuilt pipelines, rewritten deployment scripts, profiling, testing and validation, before a single workload can run on a new infrastructure. That cost scales directly against the speed the business demands. Fuzzball eliminates it and completely levels the playing field.

A genomics team that validates a sequencing pipeline on AWS moves it to Azure or OCI without modifying a single line in the workflow definition. A model training job that requires H100 density routes to CoreWeave automatically, while a data-sensitive simulation stays on-premises by policy. The workflow definition, container images, data orchestration and job sequencing remain identical across every environment. Teams reach production faster, access better GPU capacity at lower cost and carry no operational overhead for every cloud they add.

“AI teams today are asked to ship faster, control costs and maintain sovereignty over their data, simultaneously, across infrastructure that was never designed to work together,” said Gregory Kurtzer, CEO and founder of CIQ. “We built Fuzzball to solve that problem at the architectural level. When your workflow definition abstracts its requirements properly, you get portable access to every GPU environment the market offers and the freedom to route to wherever the best price, performance and data policy lives. Controlling your infrastructure and workloads is what enterprise AI infrastructure requires for production, and no other platform delivers it.”

One control plane across five clouds and on-premises
Fuzzball’s multi-cloud architecture rests on a provider-agnostic workflow definition. The file that describes compute jobs, data movement, container images and resource requirements carries no cloud-specific logic. Fuzzball’s orchestration layer translates that definition into concrete infrastructure on whichever environment sits underneath, whether that means Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, AWS or CoreWeave.

Fuzzball federates across all five cloud environments, alongside on-premises clusters. It simultaneously evaluates available environments at runtime and routes each job to its optimal destination. Enterprises gain the GPU density of CoreWeave, the breadth of three major hyperscalers and the sovereignty of on-premises infrastructure from one control plane, with no separate toolchains, deployment scripts or IAM models per provider.

One security model across every environment
Each cloud deployment is provisioned through a two-phase automated process that stands up a complete, production-ready cluster without manual intervention. Fuzzball maintains one IAM model, one set of RBAC policies and one secrets management posture across every cloud it runs on. Static credentials are eliminated at every layer: Workload Identity on GCP, Managed Identities on Azure, Dynamic Groups on OCI and IAM Roles on AWS. Security and compliance posture travel with the workflow, not the cloud.

“Fuzzball turns multi-cloud from a liability into a competitive advantage,” said Bjorn Hovland, president of CIQ. “Five clouds used to mean five IAM models, five deployment pipelines and five sets of operational overhead, with complexity and risk being multiplied.”

Availability
Fuzzball’s CoreWeave, AWS, GCP, OCI and Azure deployments are available now. On-premises deployment on clusters built with Warewulf, VMware or bare metal remains a first-class target. Organizations evaluating multi-cloud AI and HPC infrastructure can request a demo at ciq.com/products/fuzzball.

About CIQ
CIQ is the founding support and services partner for Rocky Linux and a leading provider of enterprise Linux infrastructure. CIQ delivers commercially supported Linux offerings, high-performance computing solutions and AI infrastructure to enterprises, government agencies, research institutions and supercomputing centers worldwide. CIQ’s products include the Rocky Linux from CIQ (RLC Pro) family of operating systems, Ascender Pro for IT automation, Fuzzball job-based container orchestration, Warewulf cluster provisioning and Apptainer, the leading container system for high-performance computing. For more information, visit ciq.com.

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Kinefinity Vista Full-Frame 6K Digital Cinema Camera Announced; More Info at B&H Photo

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Pro Video News: Kinefinity introduces the Vista Full-Frame 6K Digital Cinema camera featuring up to 6K50 video, an articulating touchscreen, and interchangeable lens mounts.

NEW YORK, June 4, 2026 B&H is pleased to share the new Kinefinity Vista Full-Frame 6K Digital Cinema Camera. Positioned as a more affordable option for creators, this compact camera features full frame 6K capture at rates up to 50 FPS and up to UHD 4K at 100 FPS in Super 35. Available with user-interchangeable Kinemount, ARRI PL, and Sony E mounts, the Vista camera enables users to choose from a remarkably wide range of both cine-style and still photo lenses.

Kinefinity VISTA Full-Frame 6K Digital Cinema Camera  https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1966966991-REG/kinefinity_vista_full_frame_6k_cinema.html

Built around a full frame 6K CMOS sensor, the Vista camera provides up to 14 stops of dynamic range for rich, nuanced imagery. An integrated OLPF (optical low-pass filter) includes UV and IR cut filters for blocking unwanted wavelengths. It offers flexible recording options, including a built-in 256GB SSD (220GB user-accessible), a single CFexpress Type B card slot, and USB-C video output.

The internal SSD and the CFexpress card slot can be used simultaneously for dual recording. Recording options include ProRes 422 HQ up to 6K50 and UHD 4K120 for creating beautiful slow-motion sequences. The Vista camera’s color science features include KineLOG3, built-in Rec. 709, neutral LUTs, and the ability to use custom LUTs for monitoring or for “baking in” your color palette.

One major update from previous generations of Kinefinity cameras is the Vista camera’s articulated onboard monitor. This 4″ OLED touchscreen with 700 cd/m² brightness can flip out and rotate up to 360° for optimal viewing. It offers tactile Record, Playback, and Menu buttons, five-way navigation, and three customizable function buttons for easy control. Dual USB-C ports provide multifunctional use with one offering a direct link for live streaming, monitoring, and full camera control via your iPhone and the Kine app.

The other USB-C port can be used to export video directly from the internal SSD or as a webcam for an iPhone, Mac, or PC host. Either of these ports can provide a 5V, 2A, non-PD output for powering a Kinefinity EAGLE e-viewfinder or mobile device. The Vista can be powered via its two-pin LEMO power input or by using Kinefinity GripBAT 2Si batteries or widely available Sony L-series type batteries.

Preorder the Kinefinity VISTA Full-Frame 6K Digital Cinema Camera https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1966991-REG/kinefinity_vista_full_frame_6k_cinema.html

Learn more with Explora Blog Kinefinity Vista Cinema Camera https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/video/news/versatile-6k-capture-with-the-compact-kinefinity-vista-digital-cinema-camera

About B&H Photo Video

As the world’s largest source of photography, video, and audio equipment, as well as computers, drones, and home and portable entertainment, B&H is known worldwide for its attentive, knowledgeable product experts and excellent customer service, including fast, reliable shipping. B&H has been satisfying customers worldwide for over 50 years.

Visitors to the website can access a variety of educational videos and enlightening articles. The B&H YouTube Channel have an unmatched wealth of educational content. Our entertaining and informative videos feature product overviews from our in-house specialists. You can view the B&H Event Space presentations from many of the world’s foremost experts and interviews with some of technology’s most dynamic personalities. Tap into this exciting resource by subscribing to the B&H YouTube Channel here. In addition to videos, the B&H Explora blog presents new product announcements, gear reviews, helpful guides, and tech news written by product experts and industry professionals, as well as our award-winning podcasts.

When you’re in Manhattan, take a tour of the B&H Photo Electronics and camera store, located at 420 Ninth Avenue. The techno-carousel spins all year round at the counters and kiosks at B&H. With thousands of products on display, the B&H Photo SuperStore is the place to test-drive and compare all the latest gear.

The B&H Payboo Credit Card offers the industry’s best instant savings and special financing, subject to credit approval. Visit B&H’s Payboo Page to learn more and apply.

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Geoffrey Ngai
B&H Photo Video
212-615-8820
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