The challenge confronting Dell Technologies Inc. is how to capitalize on the explosive AI opportunity while transitioning its millions of servers, storage arrays and PCs to a new era of innovation.

Amit Sawhney, VP at Dell, and Alex Barretto, SVP at Dell talk with theCUBE about AI opportunity during Dell Tech World.

This challenge will require a focus on go-to-market, supply chain, services and product, according to Alex Barretto (pictured, right), senior vice president at Dell. All of these factors affect how the company will generate value from artificial intelligence for its sizable customer base.

“It’s the way we envision products, the way we think about our hardware engineering [and] software engineering, injecting AI and how we actually do software engineering to make it better,” Barretto said. “We have a hundred million connected devices. Think about the power of that telemetry coming back. Then, we use that and harness AI to drive differentiated outcomes for our customers.”

Barretto spoke with theCUBE’s Dave Vellante and Savannah Peterson at Dell Technologies World, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. He was joined by Amit Sawhney (left), vice president of technology and portfolio at Dell. They discussed the importance of speed in building new tools for AI and recent announcements to power developer capabilities. (* Disclosure below.)

Leveraging speed to capitalize on AI opportunity

Dell must move fast to take advantage of the rapidly expanding AI market while recognizing that its customers are also motivated to move quickly. This level of speed requires agility within the company as well as an ability to support clients seeking to advance their own initiatives using AI, according to Sawhney.

“Speed is everything,” he said. “It’s rapid experimentation: Learning from it, understanding what works. It’s just positioning it, moving on to the next thing and leveraging our infrastructure to the best of its potential. We continue to build upon it.”

This past spring, Dell introduced new desktop models for developers that were designed to support speed in AI programming. The GB10 delivers one petaflop of performance, while the GB300 delivers up to 20 petaflops and can train up to 460-billion parameter models, according to Barretto.

“You think about the GB10 and the GB300 that we announced two days ago,” Barretto said. “Those are actually running … a large language model on your device, literally sitting on your device. It unlocks immense value.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Dell Technologies World:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Dell Technologies World. Neither Dell Technologies Inc., the primary sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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