Event Signals· 8 min read· September 15–17, 2026 · Santa Clara, California

    What Companies Are at AI Infrastructure's Ultimate Stage 2026?

    AI Infrastructure's Ultimate Stage 2026 — AI Infra Summit 2026 — takes place September 15–17, 2026 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. The event brings together companies working across AI compute, cloud infrastructure, data centers, networking, semiconductors, storage, model infrastructure, data movement, and physical AI.

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    AI Infrastructure's Ultimate Stage 2026 at a glance

    EventAI Infra Summit 2026
    Event positioningAI Infrastructure's Ultimate Stage
    DatesSeptember 15–17, 2026
    LocationSanta Clara, California
    VenueSanta Clara Convention Center
    Companies profiled47
    CompaniesAI compute, cloud, semiconductor, networking, data-center, storage, data and AI companies
    Key areasAI data centers, compute, data movement, data and models, physical AI

    The summit focuses on the infrastructure required to make AI faster, more scalable, more efficient, and more economical to operate.

    AI Infrastructure's Ultimate Stage 2026 companies list

    CompanyAreaAI Infra Summit 2026 connection
    LightmatterPhotonic AI infrastructurePlatinum Partner
    d-MatrixAI inference computePlatinum Partner
    Ayar LabsOptical interconnectsPlatinum Partner
    CredoAI networking connectivityPlatinum Partner
    LambdaGPU cloud infrastructurePlatinum Partner / Attending
    Cerebras SystemsAI computeExhibitor / Attending
    Astera LabsData movementGold Partner / Attending
    EriduAI infrastructurePlatinum Partner
    CognichipAI chip designPlatinum Partner / Speaker
    CrusoeAI cloud and data centersGold Partner / Speaker
    NebiusAI cloudAttending / Speaker
    Together AIAI cloud and inferenceAttending / Speaker
    CoreWeaveAI cloud infrastructureAttending / Speaker
    Scale AIAI data infrastructureSpeaker
    SambaNova SystemsAI computeEvent Partner / Attending
    FluidstackAI compute infrastructureSpeaker
    VAST DataAI data infrastructureExhibitor
    EtchedAI inference hardwareSpeaker
    Spectro CloudCloud infrastructureGold Partner
    Multiverse ComputingAI optimizationGold Partner
    WekaAI data platformPlatinum Partner
    EquinixDigital infrastructureGold Partner / Attending
    RunPodGPU cloudEvent Partner / Speaker
    RebellionsAI acceleratorsGold Partner
    DnotitiaAI data infrastructureExhibitor
    STACK InfrastructureData centersEvent Partner / Attending
    XCENAComputational memoryExhibitor
    Cornelis NetworksAI and HPC networkingGold Partner
    SiMa.aiPhysical and edge AIExhibitor
    BlaizeAI computePlatinum Partner / Speaker
    ClearMLAI infrastructure softwareExhibitor
    DriveNetsAI networkingEvent Partner / Speaker
    Axelera AIAI acceleration hardwareGold Partner
    EdgeCortixEdge AI computeGold Partner
    QuadricAI computeGold Partner
    TenstorrentAI processorsExhibitor
    FuriosaAIAI inference hardwareGold Partner
    HyperAccelAI inference processorsGold Partner / Speaker
    Upscale AIAI networkingGold Partner / Speaker
    ModularAI inference softwareSpeaker
    Positron AIAI inference hardwarePlatinum Partner / Speaker
    DataBankData centersExhibitor / Attending
    AnthropicAI modelsAttending
    CohereEnterprise AIAttending
    DatabricksData and AI platformAttending
    GleanEnterprise AIAttending
    Mistral AIAI modelsAttending

    Company profiles

    Lightmatter

    Photonic AI infrastructure · Platinum Partner

    Lightmatter develops photonic technology that uses light to move data across AI systems. Its infrastructure targets one of the biggest constraints in large AI clusters: moving enormous amounts of data between processors quickly while controlling power consumption.

    d-Matrix

    AI inference compute · Platinum Partner

    d-Matrix builds purpose-designed hardware and software for generative AI inference. Its memory-centric architecture is designed to reduce data-movement bottlenecks that can limit inference performance, efficiency, and scale.

    Ayar Labs

    Optical interconnects · Platinum Partner

    Ayar Labs develops optical I/O technology for connecting chips and AI compute systems. Its approach uses optical interconnects to increase bandwidth while reducing latency and power requirements as AI clusters grow.

    Credo

    AI networking connectivity · Platinum Partner

    Credo develops high-speed connectivity technology for AI and cloud infrastructure. Its portfolio spans electrical and optical interconnects, retimers, chip-to-chip connectivity, and technologies designed to move data efficiently across large compute clusters.

    Lambda

    GPU cloud infrastructure · Platinum Partner / Attending

    Lambda provides GPU cloud infrastructure and AI computing systems for training and inference. It gives developers and enterprises access to high-performance GPU capacity without requiring them to build the underlying infrastructure themselves.

    Cerebras Systems

    AI compute · Exhibitor / Attending

    Cerebras Systems builds large-scale AI computing systems around its wafer-scale processor architecture. Its technology is designed to accelerate model training and inference while reducing some of the complexity of distributing workloads across conventional GPU clusters.

    Astera Labs

    Data movement · Gold Partner / Attending

    Astera Labs develops semiconductor connectivity solutions for AI and cloud infrastructure. Its technologies help processors, accelerators, memory, and networking components exchange data efficiently inside complex AI systems.

    Eridu

    AI infrastructure · Platinum Partner

    Eridu is building networking and data-movement infrastructure for large AI clusters. Its focus sits at the intersection of compute and networking, where bandwidth and latency directly affect accelerator utilization.

    Cognichip

    AI chip design · Platinum Partner / Speaker

    Cognichip applies AI to semiconductor design and engineering. Its technology is aimed at reducing the time and engineering effort required to develop increasingly complex chips.

    Crusoe

    AI cloud and data centers · Gold Partner / Speaker

    Crusoe builds AI cloud and data-center infrastructure for compute-intensive workloads. Its business spans GPU infrastructure and the physical facilities and energy systems required to support large AI deployments.

    Nebius

    AI cloud · Attending / Speaker

    Nebius operates an AI-focused cloud platform providing GPU infrastructure for training and deploying models. It represents the growing category of specialized clouds built specifically around AI workloads.

    Together AI

    AI cloud and inference · Attending / Speaker

    Together AI provides infrastructure for training, fine-tuning, and serving AI models. Its platform combines compute and inference infrastructure with support for a broad ecosystem of open models.

    CoreWeave

    AI cloud infrastructure · Attending / Speaker

    CoreWeave operates specialized cloud infrastructure built around GPU-intensive workloads. It provides large-scale computing capacity for AI training, inference, and other high-performance applications.

    Scale AI

    AI data infrastructure · Speaker

    Scale AI provides data and evaluation infrastructure used to build and improve AI systems. Its technology helps organizations prepare training data, evaluate model performance, and improve AI reliability.

    SambaNova Systems

    AI compute · Event Partner / Attending

    SambaNova Systems develops integrated AI computing platforms combining hardware and software for enterprise workloads. Its infrastructure supports large-model training, inference, and deployment.

    Fluidstack

    AI compute infrastructure · Speaker

    Fluidstack provides large-scale GPU computing infrastructure for AI companies and research teams. Its focus is delivering dedicated compute capacity for demanding training and inference workloads.

    VAST Data

    AI data infrastructure · Exhibitor

    VAST Data develops data infrastructure built for AI and high-performance computing. Its platform helps GPU clusters access large volumes of data without storage becoming a performance bottleneck.

    Etched

    AI inference hardware · Speaker

    Etched develops purpose-built AI accelerators optimized for transformer workloads. Its approach focuses on specialized hardware designed around the architectures powering modern generative AI.

    Spectro Cloud

    Cloud infrastructure · Gold Partner

    Spectro Cloud provides infrastructure management software for Kubernetes environments across clouds, data centers, and edge locations. It helps organizations operate distributed infrastructure supporting AI workloads.

    Multiverse Computing

    AI optimization · Gold Partner

    Multiverse Computing develops technology for reducing the computational requirements of AI models. Its model-compression approach can lower memory, hardware, and energy requirements for AI inference.

    Weka

    AI data platform · Platinum Partner

    Weka develops high-performance data infrastructure for GPU-intensive computing. Its software helps keep data moving fast enough to prevent expensive accelerators from sitting idle while waiting for storage.

    Equinix

    Digital infrastructure · Gold Partner / Attending

    Equinix operates global data-center and interconnection infrastructure. Its facilities connect cloud providers, enterprises, network operators, and AI infrastructure companies through high-performance networks.

    RunPod

    GPU cloud · Event Partner / Speaker

    RunPod provides GPU cloud and serverless infrastructure for AI developers. Users can access GPU capacity for training, inference, and deployment without managing the underlying servers themselves.

    Rebellions

    AI accelerators · Gold Partner

    Rebellions develops AI semiconductor technology focused on inference. Its accelerators target the performance and efficiency requirements of deploying increasingly large AI models.

    Dnotitia

    AI data infrastructure · Exhibitor

    Dnotitia develops data infrastructure for AI workloads, including technology for accelerating vector search and retrieval. These capabilities support AI systems that connect language models with large external knowledge stores.

    STACK Infrastructure

    Data centers · Event Partner / Attending

    STACK Infrastructure develops hyperscale data-center campuses for cloud and AI workloads. Its infrastructure provides the power, cooling, connectivity, and capacity required for dense AI compute clusters.

    XCENA

    Computational memory · Exhibitor

    XCENA develops computational-memory technology that brings processing closer to stored data. The approach aims to reduce unnecessary data movement inside large AI systems.

    Cornelis Networks

    AI and HPC networking · Gold Partner

    Cornelis Networks develops high-performance networking technology for AI and HPC clusters. Its interconnect infrastructure helps large numbers of compute nodes communicate efficiently during distributed workloads.

    SiMa.ai

    Physical and edge AI · Exhibitor

    SiMa.ai develops machine-learning system-on-chip technology for physical and edge AI. Its platform supports applications such as robotics, industrial systems, computer vision, and intelligent edge devices.

    Blaize

    AI compute · Platinum Partner / Speaker

    Blaize develops AI computing hardware and software for inference across edge and data-center environments. Its architecture balances AI performance against power, latency, and deployment constraints.

    ClearML

    AI infrastructure software · Exhibitor

    ClearML provides infrastructure software for developing and deploying AI. Its platform covers experiment management, orchestration, GPU utilization, model deployment, and AI workload management.

    DriveNets

    AI networking · Event Partner / Speaker

    DriveNets develops cloud-native networking software for large-scale infrastructure. Its technology helps connect distributed computing resources and manage the heavy data flows created by AI clusters.

    Axelera AI

    AI acceleration hardware · Gold Partner

    Axelera AI develops energy-efficient AI acceleration hardware for inference. Its technology targets edge and enterprise deployments that need strong AI performance with lower power requirements.

    EdgeCortix

    Edge AI compute · Gold Partner

    EdgeCortix develops AI processing technology for efficient edge inference. Its hardware and software target environments where power, space, and latency are constrained.

    Quadric

    AI compute · Gold Partner

    Quadric develops programmable processor technology for on-device and edge AI. Its architecture is designed to support multiple AI workloads while retaining greater flexibility than fixed-function accelerators.

    Tenstorrent

    AI processors · Exhibitor

    Tenstorrent develops AI processors, computing systems, and supporting software for machine-learning workloads. Its work spans accelerator architecture and RISC-V-based computing.

    FuriosaAI

    AI inference hardware · Gold Partner

    FuriosaAI develops specialized accelerators for AI inference. Its technology focuses on improving the efficiency of serving large models where memory bandwidth, power consumption, and cost are major constraints.

    HyperAccel

    AI inference processors · Gold Partner / Speaker

    HyperAccel develops LPU-based semiconductor technology for large language model inference. Its architecture focuses on efficient token generation and LLM processing.

    Upscale AI

    AI networking · Gold Partner / Speaker

    Upscale AI develops networking infrastructure for large AI clusters. Its technology addresses the challenge of connecting thousands of accelerators without networking becoming the system bottleneck.

    Modular

    AI inference software · Speaker

    Modular develops software infrastructure for running AI workloads across different hardware environments. Its platform aims to make AI inference less dependent on a single accelerator or hardware stack.

    Positron AI

    AI inference hardware · Platinum Partner / Speaker

    Positron AI develops purpose-built hardware for generative AI inference. Its technology targets the memory, performance, and cost requirements involved in serving large models at scale.

    DataBank

    Data centers · Exhibitor / Attending

    DataBank operates data centers and colocation infrastructure across the United States. Its facilities provide the computing, networking, power, and cooling infrastructure behind enterprise and AI deployments.

    Anthropic

    AI models · Attending

    Anthropic develops the Claude family of AI models. Running frontier models at scale makes companies such as Anthropic major consumers of compute, networking, storage, and data-center infrastructure.

    Cohere

    Enterprise AI · Attending

    Cohere develops foundation models and enterprise AI technology. Its deployments highlight the infrastructure requirements involved in serving large models securely and efficiently for businesses.

    Databricks

    Data and AI platform · Attending

    Databricks provides a platform spanning data management, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI. Its position between enterprise data and model development makes it an important software layer in AI infrastructure.

    Glean

    Enterprise AI · Attending

    Glean develops enterprise search, AI assistants, and agent technology that connects models with company knowledge and applications. These systems depend on infrastructure for retrieval, model serving, data access, and orchestration.

    Mistral AI

    AI models · Attending

    Mistral AI develops foundation models and enterprise AI technology for cloud, private, and controlled deployments. Its approach reflects growing demand for infrastructure that can support AI across different computing environments.

    What types of companies are attending AI Infra Summit 2026?

    The companies participating in AI Infrastructure's Ultimate Stage span nearly every major layer required to build and operate modern AI systems.

    CategoryRepresentative companies
    AI compute and semiconductorsCerebras, d-Matrix, SambaNova, Etched, Rebellions, Tenstorrent, FuriosaAI, HyperAccel, Positron AI, Blaize and Axelera AI
    Cloud and GPU infrastructureLambda, CoreWeave, Nebius, Together AI, RunPod, Fluidstack and Crusoe
    Networking and data movementLightmatter, Ayar Labs, Credo, Astera Labs, Cornelis Networks, DriveNets and Upscale AI
    Data centers and storageEquinix, DataBank, STACK Infrastructure, Weka and VAST Data
    Models, software and AI platformsAnthropic, Cohere, Mistral AI, Databricks, Glean, Scale AI, ClearML and Modular

    Together, these companies represent much of the infrastructure stack required to train, deploy, connect, store, and operate modern AI systems.

    Why AI Infrastructure's Ultimate Stage 2026 matters

    AI performance increasingly depends on more than the model itself. Large-scale AI systems require processors, memory, networking, storage, cloud infrastructure, data centers, power, cooling, and software orchestration to work together efficiently.

    AI Infra Summit 2026 brings companies working across these layers into one event, making it useful for understanding where AI infrastructure is developing and which companies are building the systems behind the next generation of AI.

    How we built this list

    This list was surfaced by Agent Jesse and also includes companies listed on the official AI Infra Summit 2026 site as sponsors, exhibitors, partners, speakers, or attendees.

    Last reviewed: September 11, 2026

    Frequently asked questions

    What is AI Infrastructure's Ultimate Stage 2026?

    It is AI Infra Summit 2026, a conference focused on the compute, cloud, networking, data, semiconductor, and data-center infrastructure behind AI.

    When is AI Infra Summit 2026?

    AI Infra Summit 2026 takes place September 15-17, 2026.

    Where is AI Infra Summit 2026?

    The event takes place at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.

    What types of companies attend AI Infra Summit?

    The event brings together AI chipmakers, GPU cloud providers, networking companies, data centers, storage platforms, model builders, and AI infrastructure software companies.

    Which AI compute companies are attending?

    Companies include Cerebras, d-Matrix, SambaNova, Tenstorrent, FuriosaAI, Rebellions, HyperAccel, Blaize, Etched, and Positron AI.

    Which AI cloud companies are attending?

    Companies include CoreWeave, Lambda, Nebius, Together AI, RunPod, Fluidstack, and Crusoe.

    Which networking companies are represented?

    Companies include Lightmatter, Ayar Labs, Credo, Astera Labs, Cornelis Networks, DriveNets, and Upscale AI.

    Which data-center and storage companies are represented?

    Companies include Equinix, DataBank, STACK Infrastructure, Weka, and VAST Data.

    Are AI model companies attending?

    Yes. Anthropic, Cohere, and Mistral AI are among the model builders represented.

    Why is AI infrastructure important?

    Modern AI depends on compute, networking, memory, storage, power, cooling, data centers, and software infrastructure working together efficiently.

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