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.
AI Infrastructure's Ultimate Stage 2026 at a glance
| Event | AI Infra Summit 2026 |
| Event positioning | AI Infrastructure's Ultimate Stage |
| Dates | September 15–17, 2026 |
| Location | Santa Clara, California |
| Venue | Santa Clara Convention Center |
| Companies profiled | 47 |
| Companies | AI compute, cloud, semiconductor, networking, data-center, storage, data and AI companies |
| Key areas | AI 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
| Company | Area | AI Infra Summit 2026 connection |
|---|---|---|
| Lightmatter | Photonic AI infrastructure | Platinum Partner |
| d-Matrix | AI inference compute | Platinum Partner |
| Ayar Labs | Optical interconnects | Platinum Partner |
| Credo | AI networking connectivity | Platinum Partner |
| Lambda | GPU cloud infrastructure | Platinum Partner / Attending |
| Cerebras Systems | AI compute | Exhibitor / Attending |
| Astera Labs | Data movement | Gold Partner / Attending |
| Eridu | AI infrastructure | Platinum Partner |
| Cognichip | AI chip design | Platinum Partner / Speaker |
| Crusoe | AI cloud and data centers | Gold Partner / Speaker |
| Nebius | AI cloud | Attending / Speaker |
| Together AI | AI cloud and inference | Attending / Speaker |
| CoreWeave | AI cloud infrastructure | Attending / Speaker |
| Scale AI | AI data infrastructure | Speaker |
| SambaNova Systems | AI compute | Event Partner / Attending |
| Fluidstack | AI compute infrastructure | Speaker |
| VAST Data | AI data infrastructure | Exhibitor |
| Etched | AI inference hardware | Speaker |
| Spectro Cloud | Cloud infrastructure | Gold Partner |
| Multiverse Computing | AI optimization | Gold Partner |
| Weka | AI data platform | Platinum Partner |
| Equinix | Digital infrastructure | Gold Partner / Attending |
| RunPod | GPU cloud | Event Partner / Speaker |
| Rebellions | AI accelerators | Gold Partner |
| Dnotitia | AI data infrastructure | Exhibitor |
| STACK Infrastructure | Data centers | Event Partner / Attending |
| XCENA | Computational memory | Exhibitor |
| Cornelis Networks | AI and HPC networking | Gold Partner |
| SiMa.ai | Physical and edge AI | Exhibitor |
| Blaize | AI compute | Platinum Partner / Speaker |
| ClearML | AI infrastructure software | Exhibitor |
| DriveNets | AI networking | Event Partner / Speaker |
| Axelera AI | AI acceleration hardware | Gold Partner |
| EdgeCortix | Edge AI compute | Gold Partner |
| Quadric | AI compute | Gold Partner |
| Tenstorrent | AI processors | Exhibitor |
| FuriosaAI | AI inference hardware | Gold Partner |
| HyperAccel | AI inference processors | Gold Partner / Speaker |
| Upscale AI | AI networking | Gold Partner / Speaker |
| Modular | AI inference software | Speaker |
| Positron AI | AI inference hardware | Platinum Partner / Speaker |
| DataBank | Data centers | Exhibitor / Attending |
| Anthropic | AI models | Attending |
| Cohere | Enterprise AI | Attending |
| Databricks | Data and AI platform | Attending |
| Glean | Enterprise AI | Attending |
| Mistral AI | AI models | Attending |
Company profiles
Lightmatter
Photonic AI infrastructure · Platinum PartnerLightmatter 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 Partnerd-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 PartnerAyar 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 PartnerCredo 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 / AttendingLambda 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 / AttendingCerebras 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 / AttendingAstera 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 PartnerEridu 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 / SpeakerCognichip 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 / SpeakerCrusoe 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 / SpeakerNebius 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 / SpeakerTogether 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 / SpeakerCoreWeave 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 · SpeakerScale 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 / AttendingSambaNova 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 · SpeakerFluidstack 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 · ExhibitorVAST 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 · SpeakerEtched 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 PartnerSpectro 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 PartnerMultiverse 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 PartnerWeka 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 / AttendingEquinix 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 / SpeakerRunPod 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 PartnerRebellions 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 · ExhibitorDnotitia 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 / AttendingSTACK 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 · ExhibitorXCENA 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 PartnerCornelis 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 · ExhibitorSiMa.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 / SpeakerBlaize 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 · ExhibitorClearML 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 / SpeakerDriveNets 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 PartnerAxelera 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 PartnerEdgeCortix 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 PartnerQuadric 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 · ExhibitorTenstorrent 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 PartnerFuriosaAI 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 / SpeakerHyperAccel 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 / SpeakerUpscale 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 · SpeakerModular 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 / SpeakerPositron 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 / AttendingDataBank 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 · AttendingAnthropic 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 · AttendingCohere 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 · AttendingDatabricks 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 · AttendingGlean 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 · AttendingMistral 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.
| Category | Representative companies |
|---|---|
| AI compute and semiconductors | Cerebras, d-Matrix, SambaNova, Etched, Rebellions, Tenstorrent, FuriosaAI, HyperAccel, Positron AI, Blaize and Axelera AI |
| Cloud and GPU infrastructure | Lambda, CoreWeave, Nebius, Together AI, RunPod, Fluidstack and Crusoe |
| Networking and data movement | Lightmatter, Ayar Labs, Credo, Astera Labs, Cornelis Networks, DriveNets and Upscale AI |
| Data centers and storage | Equinix, DataBank, STACK Infrastructure, Weka and VAST Data |
| Models, software and AI platforms | Anthropic, 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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