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Mid-Year Report: AI’s Biggest 2025 Surprises Revealed
Market share shakeups, pricing shocks, and a tectonic shift in the open internet: Intel’s Lynn Comp unpacks developments in AI trends in 2025 that no one could have predicted.
MLPerf Storage v2.0 Eclipses Records in AI Benchmarking
Global surge in submissions reveals the pivotal role of storage in scaling AI training, with new checkpoint tests tackling failure resilience in massive accelerator clusters.
MLCommons Raises the Bar for AI PCs with MLPerf Client v1.0
MLCommons launches industry-standard benchmarks for LLM performance on PCs, cutting through marketing hype and giving developers and enterprises the transparent metrics they need.
AI’s New Canvas: The Visual Creators in the Zoo
From Midjourney to Firefly, Part 2 of our ‘AI Zoo’ series breaks down how today’s top image models work—and how TechArena uses them to create powerful, responsible visuals.
The Lamb Lays Down with the Lion to Avoid Being Eaten by the Wolf
As Chinese EV giants like BYD rise, German automakers are forging an unlikely alliance, but history shows such partnerships often crumble within months.
AI Chip Design Hits Crossroads in Agentic Era
As AI reshapes compute, memory, and networking, chipmakers are racing to rethink design workflows, embrace agentic AI, and overcome the next wave of data, power, and talent constraints.
Supermicro Powers AI Innovation at CloudFest 2025
At CloudFest 2025, Supermicro and Solidigm highlighted their cutting-edge hardware and storage solutions, driving advancements in AI, cloud infrastructure, and modern data demands.
How Ocient Tackles Big Data Challenges
From runaway cloud costs to complex pipelines, Ocient is reshaping data performance with Solidigm SSDs, compute-adjacent storage, and in-database machine learning.
Unpacking the Power of Alluxio: A Game-Changer in AI Infrastructure
At GTC 2025, Solidigm’s Scott Shadley discussed the evolving landscape of AI infrastructure with Alluxio Founding Engineer and VP of Technology, Bin Fan.
Beyond Automation: Cloudflare’s Vision for Developer Empowerment
At GTC 2025, Cloudflare laid out a roadmap for tools that support developers with real-time insights, scalability, and the freedom to integrate across platforms.
Building Trust with NIST AI Risk Management Framework
Product marketers have long relied on NIST for clarity and consistency — but with new frameworks emerging for AI, it's time to ask whether these guidelines go far enough in prioritizing fairness, safety, and accuracy.
VAST Partners with Deloitte to Scale AI for the Enterprise
At GTC 2025, a discussion between Deloitte and VAST showed how their partnership is scaling enterprise AI with secure, auditable infrastructure—bringing business value for next-gen, agentic AI adoption.
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Podcasts
How Axelera Scales Inference From Edge to Data Center
In the Arena: Allyson Klein with Axelera CMO Alexis Crowell on inference-first AI silicon, a customer-driven SDK, and what recent tapeouts reveal about the roadmap.
Data Insights: AI in Healthcare with Dr. Rohith Vangalla
In this episode of Data Insights, host Allyson Klein and co-host Jeniece Wnorowski sit down with Dr. Rohith Vangalla of Optum to discuss the future of AI in healthcare.
Metrum AI’s Steen Graham on Multi-Agent AI and Smarter Storage
From OCP Summit, Metrum AI CEO Steen Graham unpacks multi-agent infrastructure, SSD-accelerated RAG, and the memory-to-storage shift—plus a 2026 roadmap to boost GPU utilization, uptime, and time-to-value.
AI in Finance: Governance, Compliance, and Innovation
Anusha Nerella joins hosts Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski to explore responsible AI in financial services, emphasizing compliance, collaboration, and ROI-driven adoption strategies.
Cerebras Scales Real-Time AI with Wafer-Scale Innovation
At AI Infra Summit, CTO Sean Lie shares how Cerebras is delivering instant inference, scaling cloud and on-prem systems, and pushing reasoning models into the open-source community.
AI, Flash, and Data Protection: Scality’s Vision with Paul Speciale
Scality CMO Paul Speciale joins Data Insights to discuss the future of storage—AI-driven resilience, the rise of all-flash deployments, and why object storage is becoming central to enterprise strategy.
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.
Dell on Storage Innovation in the AI-Driven Enterprise
Dell and Solidigm leaders explore how modern storage—flash, SSDs, and flexible architectures—enables AI, accelerates performance, and helps enterprises manage data across edge to cloud.
Transforming FinTech with Agentic AI
Anusha Nerella, financial industry leader and Forbes Tech Council member leader, explores AI-driven FinTech infrastructure—scalability, governance and agentic computing. Interested in finding out more about the AI Infra Summit and seeing Anusha Nerella live? Find out more here.
Scaling AI and Biotech for Global Health Impact
In this episode of In the Arena, hear how cross-border collaboration, sustainability, and tech are shaping the future of patient care and innovation.
How Verge.io is Rethinking Compute, Storage & AI Readiness
Tune in to our latest episode of In the Arena to discover how Verge.io’s unified infrastructure platform simplifies IT management, boosts efficiency, & prepares data centers for the AI-driven future.
