Larry Dignan

Speaking at the Constellation Research Futures Forum, Tarkan Maner, President and Chief Commercial Officer at Nutanix, said that CEOs have to answer the AI question, but more pressing issues are also migrations from competitor VMware and others. "This Broadcom VMware migration is one of the biggest issues going to hit our industry in the next 20 to 24 months. And I don't think a lot of people are understanding this," said Maner. "This is going to create more opportunities for AI applications in the enterprise."

AMD is investing $150 million in Nutanix shares at $36.26 as the two companies are partnering on enterprise AI. The two companies are pursuing a joint roadmap to integrate AMD ROCm and AMD Enterprise AI software into the Nutanix Cloud Platform and the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform, which will use EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct GPUs. The deal equates to more distribution for Nutanix. AMD will also fund up to $100 million to support joint engineering and go-to-market efforts. Separately, Nutanix reported better-than-expected fiscal second quarter results.

Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of applications, has told employees to stop focusing on side projects and refocus on coding and business users. The upshot is that the company can't do everything all at once as it is taking fire from Anthropic. The comments at an all-hands meeting were reported by The Wall Street Journal. I can't say I disagree with Fidji. At some point, OpenAI won't be able to endlessly raise money and investors aren't going to put up with the company being spread to thin. OpenAI is chasing AI chat ads, devices, superintelligence and being an enterprise player. If OpenAI can't always raise money, it will have to be a lot more strategic.

Accenture and Databricks said the companies are forming a new business group that'll include more than 25,000 Databricks-trained pros. The goal is to accelerate enterprise AI adoption.

GTC 2026 coverage:

• Nvidia GTC 2026: AI inference fueling demand boom, $1 trillion of order flow
• Nvidia GTC 2026: Nvidia’s hardware strategy goes beyond GPU in AI inference pivot
• Nvidia GTC 2026: Nvidia launches NemoClaw, eyes to pair with DGX Spark, DGX Station
• Nvidia GTC 2026: We're a software company too
• Where’s tokenomics for the rest of us?
• Event Report: Nvidia GTC Kicks Off - All Eyes on AI Future
• Nvidia Nemotron: Much needed open-source model champion in US
• Nvidia's Huang: All software will be agentic
• Constellation ShortList™ AI Factory Providers

GTC related:

• CoreWeave launches latest Nvidia instances, adds Weights & Biases tools
• Akamai Inference Cloud deploys Nvidia AI Grid
• Nebius said Meta has signed a five-year agreement for $12 billion in dedicated capacity in multiple locations. The deployment will be based on Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform. Nebius said it will start delivering the capacity in early 2027. Meta has the option to purchase another $15 billion of upcoming Nebius infrastructure over five years to potentially bring the total contract value to $27 billion.

From Nvidia's GTC 2026 and Jensen Huang's keynote.

"I know how many of you grew up with GeForce. GeForce is Nvidia's greatest marketing campaign. We attracted future customers, starting long before you could afford to pay for it yourself. Your parents paid. Parents paid for you to be Nvidia customers, and every single year they paid up, year after year after year until someday you became an amazing computer scientist and became a proper customer. This is the house that GeForce made 25 years ago."

OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberg was asked about why he started OpenClaw. The short version: "Sometimes you just want to talk to your computer," he said. "You also want AI that actually does things."

Steinberg, who counts Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as one of his biggest fans, said:

"I wanted this since May. And to me, it was so obvious that all the big labs would be building it. The months passed and it was November and there was still nothing. And was like oh I have to do it myself? I just vibed it into existence basically. And then ever since it's been a rocket ship, but clearly people want AI that actually does things like. You have your own identity and now we, we're heading into a future where we make this possible."

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will kick off Nvidia GTC 2026. Here's the live stream.

Nebius said Meta has signed a five-year agreement for $12 billion in dedicated capacity in multiple locations. The deployment will be based on Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform. Nebius said it will start delivering the capacity in early 2027. Meta has the option to purchase another $15 billion of upcoming Nebius infrastructure over five years to potentially bring the total contract value to $27 billion.

Infleqtion, a neutral atom quantum computing company, said it has delivered a 100-qubit Sqale system to the National Quantum Computing Centre in the UK. The installation of the Sqale platform is part of its broader Quantum Computing Testbed Initiative. Infleqtion recently went public via a SPAC deal and held an analyst day.

More than 4 out of 5 physicians are using AI in their practices, according to the American Medical Association. The 81% of physicians using AI in medical practice is more than double the rate in 2023.

The biggest use cases for physician AI usage is documentation and summarization, research and standards of care and workflows.

Neptune Insurance's Neptune Flood said it will provide real-time preliminary flood insurance quotes within ChatGPT via a Neptune Flood app. The company, which we profiled last year, is building out its direct-to-consumer efforts. Through ChatGPT, consumers can ask about flood risk, get quotes, explore options and transition to Neptune Flood's site to complete a purchase.

See: Neptune Insurance highlights AI exponential, data, build vs. buy trends