Dell wants to be your one-stop shop for AI infrastructure

Michael Dell is pitching a "decentralized" future for artificial intelligence that his company's devices will make possible. "The future of AI will be decentralized, low-latency, and hyper-efficient," predicted the Dell Technologies founder, chairman, and CEO in his Dell World keynote, which you can watch on YouTube. "AI will follow the data, not the other way around," Dell said at Monday's kickoff of the company's four-day customer conference in Las Vegas. Dell is betting that the complexity of deploying generative AI on-premise is driving companies to embrace a vendor with all of the parts, plus 24-hour-a-day service and support, including monitoring. On day two of the show, Dell chief operating officer Jeffrey Clarke noted that Dell's survey of enterprise customers shows 37% want an infrastructure vendor to "build their entire AI stack for them," adding, "We think Dell is becoming an enterprise's'one-stop shop' for all AI infrastructure."