Inference by Turing Post Why do we need a special Operating System for AI?
Renen Hallak – founder and CEO of VAST Data – believes we’re witnessing the birth of an *AI Operating System*: a foundational layer that connects data, compute, and policy for the agentic era.
In this episode of Inference, we talk about how enterprises are moving from sandboxes and proof-of-concepts to full production agents, why *metadata matters more than “big data,”* and how the next infrastructure revolution will quietly define who controls intelligence at scale.
*We go deep into:*
What “AI OS” really means – and why the old stack can’t handle agentic systems
Why enterprises are underestimating the magnitude (but overestimating the speed) of this shift
The evolving role of data, metadata, and context in intelligent systems
How control, safety, and observability must be baked into infrastructure – not added later
Why Renen says the next 10 years will reshape everything – from jobs to the meaning of money
The ladder of progress: storage → database → data platform → operating system
What first-principles thinking looks like inside a company building for AGI-scale systems
This is a conversation about the architecture of the future – and the fine line between control and creativity when intelligence becomes infrastructure.
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*Guest:* Renen Hallak, Founder & CEO, VAST Data
https://www.linkedin.com/in/renenh/
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