Chen Goldberg on vertical integration
From Who’s Ready for Anything at GTC26 Inside the AI Cloud Shift with Chen Goldberg · · Lisa Martin
“The first one is that we are um started with a vertically integrated stack. Okay, you now see some of the folks announcing it but it's a like they're trying to retrofit that vertical integration. huge difference retro versus what we are doing we understand that the complexity of the stack is huge and in order to manage that you need to allow flexibility and quick decisions across the stack and knowing how to react to events lower the stack. So he like saying from metal to model, from metal to job and bringing all of that information and really creating a new way to operate a cloud stack in the AI era.”
On , Chen Goldberg, Senior Vice President of Engineering at CoreWeave (joined in Aug 2024). at CoreWeave, spoke about vertical integration 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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