AWS Summit AI-Ready Infrastructure Panel with Prasad Kalyanaraman, David Issacs & Neil Thompson

CXO Bytes host Sanjay Podder is joined by Prasad Kalyanaraman, David Isaacs and Neil Thompson at the AI-Ready Infrastructure Panel at the AWS Summit in Washington, June 2024. The discussion featured insights on the transformative potential of generative AI, the global semiconductor innovation race, and the impact of the CHIPS Act on supply chain resilience. The panel also explored the infrastructure requirements for AI, including considerations for sustainable data center locations, responsible AI usage, and innovations in water and energy efficiency. The episode offers a comprehensive look at the future of AI infrastructure and its implications for business and sustainability.
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TRANSCRIPT BELOW:
Sanjay Podder: Hello and welcome to CXO Bytes, a podcast brought to you by the Green Software Foundation and dedicated to supporting Chiefs of Information, Technology, Sustainability, and AI as they aim to shape a sustainable future through green software. We will uncover the strategies and a big green move that's helped drive results for business and for the planet.
I am your host, Sanjay Poddar.
Welcome to another episode of CXO Bytes, where we bring you unique insights into the world of sustainable software development. I am your host Sanjay Poddar. Today we are excited to bring you highlights from a captivating panel discussion at the recent AWS Summit in Washington held in June 2024. The AI-Ready Infrastructure Panel featured industry heavyweights including Prasad Kalyanaraman, VP of Infrastructure Services at AWS, David Isaacs from the Semiconductor Industry Association, and renowned researcher Neil Thompson from MIT, and it was chaired by Axios Senior Business Reporter Hope King.
During this panel, we take a look at the transformative potential of generative AI, the global race for semiconductor innovation, and the significance of the CHIPS Act in strengthening supply chain resilience. Together, we will hopefully have a better picture of the future of AI infrastructure and the innovations driving this field forward.
And before we dive in here, a reminder that everything we talk about will be linked in the show notes below this episode. So without further ado, let's dive into the AI-Ready Infrastructure Panel from the AWS Summit.
Prasad Kalyanaraman: Well, well first, for the avoidance of doubt, generative AI is an extremely transformative technology for us. You know, sometimes I liken it to the internet, right, the internet revolution. So, I think there's, we're very early in that journey. I would say that, at least the way we've thought about generative AI, we think about it in three layers of the stack, right?
The underlying infrastructure layer is one of them, and I'll get into more details there. And then there is the frameworks. We build a set of capabilities that makes it easy to run generative AI models. And then the third layer is the application layer, which is where, you know, many people are famil...