Inside NVIDIA’s AI Factory

AI at scale isn’t about more GPUs—it’s about building a system that can keep evolving.

In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, John Gentry of NVIDIA and Derek Elbert of World Wide Technology explain why AI factories are becoming the backbone of enterprise AI—and why isolated GPU clusters can’t keep up.

They break down the factory model for production-grade artificial intelligence: data and power in, intelligence out. But making it work now requires more than compute—enterprises must unify networking, storage, orchestration, security, and multi-tenant management into a single, flexible system that serves the entire business.

At the center is data. What was once an asset is now the bottleneck. As platforms and GPUs evolve every year, enterprises need industrial-grade data pipelines and architectures built for portability—not lock-in.

The episode looks ahead to distributed inference and agentic AI, where models run at the edge while core factories continuously generate new intelligence. The mandate is clear: design for scale, flexibility, and constant change—or fall behind.

Good AI starts with good data.
Now it has to be put to work.

The AI Proving Ground Podcast leverages the deep AI technical and business expertise from within World Wide Technology's one-of-a-kind AI Proving Ground, which provides unrivaled access to the world's leading AI technologies. This unique lab environment accelerates your ability to learn about, test, train and implement AI solutions.

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The AI Proving Ground is a composable lab environment that features the latest high-performance infrastructure and reference architectures from the world's leading AI companies, such as NVIDIA, Cisco, Dell, F5, AMD, Intel and others.

Developed within our Advanced Technology Center (ATC), this one-of-a-kind lab environment empowers IT teams to evaluate and test AI infrastructure, software and solutions for efficacy, scalability and flexibility — all under one roof. The AI Proving Ground provides visibility into data flows across the entire development pipeline, enabling more informed decision-making while safeguarding production environments.