AI
Highlights
AI Benchmarks Shift as MLPerf Highlights LLM Dominance
MLPerf Inference 5.0 signals the rise of large language models, with LLAMA 2 70B surpassing ResNet-50 in submissions and driving next-gen AI performance across compute platforms.
Edge AI Silicon Heats Up as MemryX Closes $44M Series B
MemryX, a provider of edge AI acceleration hardware, recently closed its latest round of funding, serving as a potential bellwether for the next growth edge in AI compute.
Unpacking The AI Data Factory – A Storage Perspective
From VAST Data to Weka, Graid to Solidigm — storage disruptors shined bright at NVIDIA GTC 2025. Here’s how storage innovators are redefining AI infrastructure and why it matters to the future of AI.
Deloitte and VAST on the Next Stage of Enterprise AI
Deloitte and VAST Data share how secure data pipelines and system-level integration are supporting the shift to scalable, agentic AI across enterprise environments.
Building a Full-Stack AI Cloud with Nebius and VAST
This video explores how Nebius and VAST Data are partnering to power enterprise AI with full-stack cloud infrastructure—spanning compute, storage, and data services for training and inference at scale.
With Augmented Memory Grid, Weka Challenges Old Guard Thinking
Weka’s new memory grid raises new questions about AI data architecture—exploring how shifts in interface speeds and memory tiers may reshape performance, scale, and deployment strategies.
Optum’s AI Health Care Vision: Privacy-First Innovation
From predicting sepsis before symptoms appear to enabling rural clinics to make specialist-level diagnoses, a privacy-first approach to AI in health care promises to transform lives.
Dell’s AI Data Innovation: When Storage Takes Command
PowerScale delivers unmatched performance and scale for AI-driven transformation, while 122TB drives reshape enterprise infrastructure, proving storage is AI’s competitive edge in today’s data era.
‘Open to Work’: The Quickening of AI & the Future of Jobs
From Intel’s layoffs to stealth automation, AI is reshaping work at a pace that outstrips human adaptation—driving record stress, uneven gains, and a scramble to reskill before the next downturn hits.
Lightwave Logic’s Robert Blum on Polymer Optics for AI
Allyson Klein and Robert Blum of Lightwave Logic unpack how electro-optic polymers, paired with silicon photonics, lower power and boost density on the road to 400G-per-lane optics— with a 2027 volume ramp in sight.
Privacy-First AI in Healthcare: Optum’s Dr. Rohith Vangalla
From federated learning and zero-trust to confidential computing, Dr. Rohith Vangalla shares a practitioner’s playbook for explainable, scalable AI that moves healthcare from reactive to proactive.
Permission Debuts a Digital Mini-Me for the Agentic Era
Permission Agent turns user-approved signals into auditable datasets—paying contributors in $ASK—so teams can train and personalize AI with verifiable consent and enforceable revocation.
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Podcasts
AI Infra 2025: David Glick on Building Walmart’s Future with AI
In this episode of In the Arena, David Glick, SVP at Walmart, shares how one of the world’s largest enterprises is fostering rapid AI innovation and empowering engineers to transform retail.
Rafay’s Haseeb Budhani on Building the Future of AI Infrastructure
Haseeb Budhani, Co-Founder of Rafay, shares how his team is helping enterprises scale AI infrastructure across the globe, and why he believes we’re still in the early innings of adoption.
From AI Infra: AI Strategy, Security, & Human Impact with Daniel Wu
Direct from AI Infra 2025, AI Expert & Author Daniel Wu shares how organizations build trustworthy systems—bridging academia and industry with governance and security for lasting impact.
Carrier’s Arun Nandi on Early AI Adoption and the Infra Edge
Recorded at AI Infra Summit 2025 in Santa Clara: Carrier CDAO Arun Nandi on infra as AI’s backbone, how early adopters win on ROI and speed, and what changed in the last 12–24 months.
Inside Data-Centric Strategy with Equinix and Solidigm
Equinix’s Glenn Dekhayser and Solidigm’s Scott Shadley join TechArena to unpack hybrid multicloud, AI-driven workloads, and what defines a resilient, data-centric data center strategy.
Powering AI: Solidigm’s Vision for the Future of Storage
Industry leader Scott Shadley reveals how Solidigm’s innovations in SSDs, partnerships, and architecture are reshaping data centers to meet the rising demands of AI, edge, and enterprise workloads.
Compute Requirements in the AI Era with Intel’s Lisa Spelman
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Intel’s Lisa Spelman about how compute requirements are changing for the AI era, where we are with broad enterprise adoption of AI, and how software, tools and standards are required to help implement solutions at scale.
The Demand for Memory Innovation to Fuel ML with Netflix
TechArena host Allyson Klein interviews Netflix’s Tejas Chopra about how Netflix’s recommendation engines require memory innovation across performance and efficiency in advance of his keynote at MemCon 2024 later this month.
Re-architeting Patient Care with Physia
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Physia about their generative AI based patient care platform and how they aim to create a new AI + doctor model to improve patient care and transform the medical industry.
Human Creativity, AI and the Future of Film with Artefacto’s Anna Giralt Gris
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Artefacto’s Anna Giralt Gris about her views on the future of film and the impact that AI will make in re-shaping one of humanity’s most creative mediums.
MemryX Delivers AI Performance at the Edge
TechArena host Allyson Klein talks to MemryX VP of Product and Business Development Roger Peene about how his company is transforming AI at the edge with their silicon and how we’re sitting in an AI revolution.
Data Observability in the AI Era with Unravel Data CEO Kunal Argawal
TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Unravel Data CEO Kunal Argawal about how his organization is tapping AI to disrupt the data observability arena.
