Chen Goldberg on AI cloud necessity
From Who’s Ready for Anything at GTC26 Inside the AI Cloud Shift with Chen Goldberg · · Lisa Martin
“I think that a year ago people were not sure that we need an AI cloud but now folks that once they are trying to experiment more they see there is a need and one of the things you know and maybe I can tell you why I joined coowave. So before COVID, I was part of Google cloud and working on building that cloud native ecosystem and back at the day when we talked about the value of the cloud, it wasn't just enough to move to the cloud, right? A lift and shift. There was a change of ecosystem. You have to change the way you do tooling, how you develop, how you deploy, how you manage. And when I started experimenting and experiencing more of these new type of workloads, it felt similar but actually much bigger bigger opportunity to reimagine how cloud should look like.”
On , Chen Goldberg, Senior Vice President of Engineering at CoreWeave (joined in Aug 2024). at CoreWeave, spoke about AI cloud necessity during Who’s Ready for Anything at GTC26 Inside the AI Cloud Shift with Chen Goldberg on Lisa Martin.
About Chen Goldberg
At NVIDIA GTC 2026, Chen Goldberg, Senior Vice President of Engineering at CoreWeave, discussed the company's shift from experimentation to production in AI workloads. She noted that the past 12 months have seen a significant change in the industry, with a move away from basic education toward production-focused discussions. Goldberg highlighted CoreWeave's vertically integrated stack, which she described as built "from metal to model," allowing for flexibility and quick decisions across the stack)Skip. She also mentioned capabilities like Mission Control, which she said are both reactive and proactive in solving customer problems. Goldberg addressed CoreWeave's recent announcements, including a billion-dollar investment, which she said the media focused on, while the company was more excited about using CPUs, collaboration on reference architecture, and offering services and software outside the CoreWeave cloud, such as through the Weights & Biases acquisition. She described Nvidia as an "amazing partner" and said CoreWeave has moved from being perceived as a GPU reseller to being recognized as a leader in the space.
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