The Nutanix presentation at AI Infrastructure Field Day focused on enterprise AI solutions, emphasizing giving customers a solid technical understanding of Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) and its role in addressing key customer challenges. The discussion highlighted the curated model catalog, offering pre-configured and customizable models, and the ability to incorporate new cutting-edge models, even within air-gapped environments, easily. This approach provides control over models and data, which is particularly relevant for customers seeking sovereign AI solutions and needing to deploy AI models in their own environments.

Nutanix also emphasized the "deploy once, inference many" model, allowing for the creation of a shared service model where multiple applications can connect to deployed models via endpoints. Furthermore, the session touched upon the simplification of sizing, as NAI streamlines the deployment of models, making the process straightforward. The speaker reiterated the benefits of NAI as an application running on Kubernetes, offering flexibility and portability. The presentation concluded by discussing the future of distributed inference across multiple nodes, acknowledging its importance and status as a planned future development.

A key takeaway from the presentation was the growing demand for sovereign AI, driven by geopolitical factors and specific terms of service that restrict the use of certain models in certain regions. Nutanix recognizes and actively helps its customers address this need by providing the necessary tools and infrastructure to enable control over AI models and data within their own environments. The company's commitment to adapting and evolving its AI solutions to meet the rapid advancements in the AI landscape was underscored, ensuring that Nutanix remains a relevant player in the enterprise AI space.

Presented by Mike Barmonde, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Nutanix. Recorded live in Santa Clara, California, on April 24, 2025, as part of AI Infrastructure Field Day. Watch the entire presentation at https://techfieldday.com/appearance/nutanix-presents-at-ai-infrastructure-field-day-2/ or https://techfieldday.com/event/aiifd2/ for more information.