The race for making perfect hardware to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) applications is heating up and many companies are jumping in with their products and solutions. Of the three key parts of hardware infrastructure compute, storage, and networking compute has made significant progress in the last couple of years. The other two areas, storage and networking, are lagging behind and have yet to see major innovations pertaining to AI applications. Currently, the industry is going with the fastest available option and promoting that as a solution for deep learning. Over time, more research and development (RandD) will go into these areas and new products will emerge that are designed specifically for AI.The distributed computing infrastructure that allows AI applications to run on multiple machines is in its infancy.