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Ai4 2025: Agents, RAG, and the Enterprise AI Reality Check From arena keynotes on education and RAG to 50 tracks and 250+ exhibitors, Ai4 2025 leans into agentic systems, governance, and real-world deployments for buyers who need proof, not promises.

Day 1 @ Ai4: 8k+ peers, 50 tracks, 250+ vendors. The vibe = agentic AI with guardrails + RAG that respects data gravity. Our recap and what to ask on the expo floor. www.techarena.ai/content/ai4-...

Verizon Business’ Nikhil Tyagi on Edge AI Innovation Nikhil Tyagi of Verizon Business discusses scaling AI at the edge, from small language models and multimodal experiences to infrastructure challenges and adaptive inference.

Verizon’s Nikhil Tyagi on making edge AI deployable: 5G for XR, context awareness, and real-world trade-offs (latency vs accuracy, power vs performance). Recap + takeaways: www.techarena.ai/content/veri...

Google’s Vision for Data Center Storage with OCP L.O.C.K. New open-source key management system could revolutionize data center sustainability by enabling safe reuse of storage drives while also improving data security for cloud service providers.

OCP L.O.C.K. could finally bridge the gap between security and sustainability. Instead of destroying storage drives at their end of life, this open-source initiative enables the potential for secure reuse.

Read more about how it promises “the best of both worlds”:
www.techarena.ai/content/goog...

Storage Is the Catalyst Revolutionizing Enterprise AI Learn how Solidigm SSDs are delivering 10x-20x performance gains and 40% cost savings for enterprise AI during Supermicro’s Open Storage Summit this August.

How are leading teams optimizing storage for enterprise AI?

At Supermicro’s Open Storage Summit, Solidigm will share how modern SSD approaches are helping organizations balance performance, cost, and scale – especially in inference and RAG use cases.

Learn more www.techarena.ai/content/stor...

GPT-5 Lands With Market-Leading Performance, a Nod to Openness OpenAI’s GPT-5 outperforms rivals in coding, context retention, and accuracy—setting a new bar for enterprise AI while signaling a subtle shift toward openness.

GPT-5 is here.
Market-leading performance
400k-token memory
Agentic workflows
A nudge toward open-source
This one’s worth a deeper look. Read the full TechArena take: www.techarena.ai/content/gpt-...
#GPT5 #AI #LLM #OpenAI #AgenticAI

FMS 2025: Honoring Jim Pappas, Driving AI Innovation FMS 2025 celebrated Jim Pappas’ lifetime of standards leadership while showcasing how AI is reshaping memory and storage with record-breaking innovation across the industry.

At FMS 2025, the storage & memory world honored the legacyof Jim Pappas—& showed how AI is reshaping the stack.
Full story via @TechArena: www.techarena.ai/content/fms-...

AI is driving a storage revolution. In the latest TechArena Data Insights, Dell and Solidigm break down how flash, scalability, and performance help turn data into real business impact—from edge to core to cloud.

Listen here: www.techarena.ai/content/dell...
#AI #Storage #Dell #Solidigm

The best innovations come from unexpected sources. Our Voices of Innovation Fellowship amplifies unique and underrepresented voices of AI/ML, data center, networking, edge & sustainability leaders. Apply through Aug. 25; decisions Sept. 2. 🔗 qvspd.share.hsforms.com/2Fz-DngHmT5G...

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.

Intel’s Lynn Comp shares 2025’s biggest surprises in a mid-year check on AI trends, including CloudFlare’s “Content Independence Day” and a $20K LLM enterprise pricing shock. We’re only halfway through 2025. Prepare for the rest of the year: www.techarena.ai/content/mid-...

#AI #Intel #DataCenter

Insights with sayTEC on Sovereign IT Infrastructure Revolution A unified security-first platform is eliminating decades of fragmented IT vulnerabilities while delivering military-grade protection at half the cost

The fragmented approach to IT security draining budgets has a solution. sayTEC integrates security, access, and storage into one zero-trust platform. The solution offers military-grade security with 50%+ cost cuts.

Read more: www.techarena.ai/content/insi...
#sayTEC #Solidigm #CyberSecurity

Dell Leads the Entertainment Industry’s Storage Revolution Dell and Solidigm explore how flash storage is transforming creative pipelines—from real-time rendering to AI-enhanced production—enabling faster workflows and better business outcomes.

ICYMI: Speed and creativity go hand in hand in media and entertainment. In our latest Data Insights episode, Dell and Solidigm explain how flash and SSD innovation are helping artists collaborate and studios move faster.
Listen now: www.techarena.ai/content/dell...

#StorageTech #AI #Dell #Solidigm

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.

MLPerf Storage v2.0 from @mlcommons.org is here—setting records with 200+ results from 26 orgs. Storage systems now support 2x more accelerators, with diverse solutions driving AI scalability.
🔗 Read more: www.techarena.ai/content/mlpe...

#AI, #DataCenterStorage, #AITraining

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 PC adoption just hit a major milestone. MLCommons dropped MLPerf Client v1.0 - the first real benchmark for LLM performance on PC hardware. The benchmark enables transparent, standardized metrics to replace proprietary benchmarks and marketing claims: www.techarena.ai/content/mlco...

Innovative practitioners deserve bigger platforms. Voices of Innovation Fellowship seeks AI/ML, data center, networking, edge & sustainability leaders. Get editing support, social promotion, newsletter inclusion. Apply through Aug. 25; decisions Sept. 2. 🔗 qvspd.share.hsforms.com/2Fz-DngHmT5G...

Hypertec Shrinks the Data Center with Immersion-Born Servers Hypertec’s immersion-born servers cut cooling power by 50% and shrink 10MW deployments from 100,000 sq ft to around 10,000—showing liquid cooling isn’t experimental anymore; it’s essential.

As AI infrastructure deployments hit a heat wall, Hypertec’s immersion cooling offers a solution: 50% less power, 90% smaller footprint.

This isn’t future tech—it’s happening now. If you’re ready to dive in, check out our latest blog: www.techarena.ai/content/hype...

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 AI Zoo goes visual. 🖼️
In Part 2 of our series, we dive into AI image generation—from how it works to which tools to trust. Featuring Midjourney, DALLE, Firefly, + a peek at our behind-the-scenes workflow.

🔗 techarena-main.webflow.io/content/ais-...

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.

BMW, Mercedes, and VW are collaborating on shared open-source EV software, choosing an alliance to combat the global threat from Chinese EV manufacturers. Such recent industry collaborations have generally failed. Read to learn if German OEMs can break the curse: www.techarena.ai/content/the-...

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.

What happens when AI starts designing the chips it runs on?
Panelists from Intel, Synopsys, Broadcom & Samsung Foundry joined Allyson Klein to talk agentic AI, memory walls, and engineering reboots.
www.techarena.ai/content/ai-c...

Mid-Year Report: How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Cybersecurity From Chinese hackers hiding in US power grids for 300 days to AI agents that fight back autonomously, security expert Sean Grimaldi reveals which 2025 predictions hit, and what’s coming next.

Ransomware attacks on industrial systems surged 46% in Q1 2025, but AI-powered security solutions are maturing to fight back.

Security expert Sean Grimaldi’s mid-year analysis provides an eye-opening look into cybersecurity trends in 2025: www.techarena.ai/content/mid-...

Stop overspending on edge AI infrastructure. OnLogic’s Hunter Golden reveals the real strategy for edge deployments is to match workload requirements to appropriate hardware. Smart sizing delivers better ROI.

Read more from his recent interview on TechArena.ai: www.techarena.ai/content/expl...

Mid-Year Report: AI Demonstrates Double-Edged Impacts in 2025 Gina Rosenthal discusses how AI is transforming everything from cybercrime and fraud detection to government operations this year, revealing both breakthrough innovations and costly failures.

The SEC & DOJ are prosecuting a company that raised $40M for an “AI-powered” app, when workers did everything manually. In our catch-up with Gina Rosenthal, she covers the spectrum of effects from AI deployments. Cybercriminals using LLMs, AI washing, and more: www.techarena.ai/content/mid-...

Synopsys Finalizes $35B Ansys Deal for Design Dominance The merger creates a “silicon to systems” engineering powerhouse, unifying chip design and simulation to tackle AI complexity and reshape the future of smart product development.

Synopsys completes its $35B acquisition of Ansys.

The new giant aims to own the full engineering stack, from chip to system.

Bold move. The execution will be everything.

📖 Full story: www.techarena.ai/content/syno...

#EDA #AI #Engineering #Synopsys #Ansys

Immersion Cooling: Revolutionizing AI & Edge Computing Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski welcome Mohan Potheri of Hypertec to explore how immersion cooling slashes energy use, shrinks data-center footprints, and powers sustainable, high-density AI, HPC,...

New #DataInsights out now! Mohan Potheri from Hypertec shows how immersion cooling dramatically reduces energy use and lowers both CAPEX and OPEX, delivering high-density compute for AI, HPC & edge.

Learn more: www.techarena.ai/content/imme...

Mid-Year Report: AI Spending Soars as Data Centers Face Heat Matty Bakkeren checks in on how data center trends are playing out in 2025, from nations pouring billions into AI supremacy projects to how data centers are trying to offset massive energy needs.

As data centers become critical national infrastructure, an international race for AI supremacy is on. We checked in with Matty Bakkeren (Momenthesis founder) on which data center trends have taken him by surprise in 2025, and what to expect in the months ahead: www.techarena.ai/content/mid-...

Agentic AI in Engineering: From Vision to Workforce Transformation At the crossroads of Synopsys and Microsoft innovation , agentic AI is no longer a future vision – it’s a catalyst for technical acceleration and a redefinition of engineering roles.

AI is reshaping silicon design — and engineering roles with it.
TechArena’s latest article delves into a standout DAC panel with leaders from Synopsys, Microsoft, Arm, Marvell & more: www.techarena.ai/content/agen...

Ansys + Rohde & Schwarz: Hardware Meets Virtual Cities Through digital twin modeling and hardware testing, this Ansys and Rohde & Schwarz collaboration empowers developers to optimize RF systems in lab environments with real-world fidelity.

Cool tech alert for 5G/6G validation from a chat with Ansys & Rohde & Schwarz: They're marrying high-fidelity simulation with hardware testing: www.techarena.ai/content/ansy...

Stanford’s Daniel Wu on Trust, Agents & the Future of AI From agentic and embodied AI to trust and human capacity, Stanford’s Daniel Wu shares how infrastructure and intentionality will shape the next era of AI transformation.

Daniel Wu outlines AI’s four pillars: agentic, embodied, multimodal & trustworthy systems. Allyson Klein’s post highlights why human-centered infrastructure matters most. Read more: www.techarena.ai/content/stan...

#AI #AgenticAI #TrustworthyAI #Standford #AIInfraSummit2025

From GPU to Model: Together AI Powers the AI Pipeline From open-source models to enterprise partnerships, Together AI drives multidimensional growth — accelerating adoption, engagement, and impact across the entire AI development lifecycle.

What does AI growth really look like in 2025?
Together AI’s Kamesh Darisipudi breaks it down — from open source to enterprise scale.

Read the convo → www.techarena.ai/content/from...

Mid-Year Report: Semiconductor Shakeout Reshapes Auto Tech Robert Bielby assesses his 2025 predictions for the automotive industry and examines Intel’s exit, China’s BYD beating Tesla, German market woes, and 8K display adoption.

In a reversal that signals the auto industry’s rapid transformation, BYD now ships 1.5X more EVs than Tesla.

Intel is leaving automotive, startups are pivoting away, and German OEMs are adapting. The automotive tech revolution is accelerating in 2025.

Read more: www.techarena.ai/content/mid-...

Platform9 and Commvault Partner on Private Cloud Protection New integration delivers enterprise-grade backup, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience for virtualized and container-based workloads across Platform9’s Private Cloud Director.

Platform9 just leveled up its private cloud game.
New integration with Commvault means agentless VM protection, DR, and app-consistent backups — all built in.
Legacy-free, cloud-native ready.

Learn more: www.techarena.ai/content/plat...