en.Wedoany.com Reported - On May 18, at the Dell Technologies World 2026 conference in Las Vegas, Dell Technologies announced a comprehensive upgrade to Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, establishing sovereign AI as a core strategic direction. On the opening day of the conference, Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, appeared on stage alongside Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. During his keynote, Huang stated that demand for AI infrastructure is "growing parabolically." Against this backdrop, Dell Technologies launched a localized AI infrastructure portfolio spanning from desktops to data centers, and introduced the Dell AI Ecosystem Program certification initiative, helping enterprises and government agencies deploy production-grade AI workloads while maintaining full control over their data and infrastructure.

Dell Technologies attributes this strategic shift to a clear market signal: after more than two years of AI experimentation, enterprises are moving from "Should we do AI?" to "How do we implement AI without losing control?" A survey released at the conference showed that 67% of AI workloads are already running outside the public cloud. Sam Grocott, Senior Vice President of Product at Dell Technologies, noted that sovereignty, security, performance, cost control, and token economics are collectively driving the importance of on-premises deployment higher than ever before. The core logic of this upgrade is to return data sovereignty, cost predictability, and infrastructure control from the cloud back into the hands of enterprises.

The most anticipated new product from this upgrade is the Dell Deskside Agentic AI desktop intelligent AI solution. This solution integrates Dell high-performance workstations with the NVIDIA NemoClaw reference stack and OpenShell sandbox runtime, migrating Agentic AI inference from the cloud to on-premises. Enterprises can achieve breakeven against public cloud API costs within three months, with potential cost reductions of up to 87% over two years. Jeff Clarke, Chief Operating Officer of Dell Technologies, stated that this solution provides every workgroup with a secure, local environment to run agents while keeping costs predictable and intellectual property within the enterprise. The solution offers three configurations: the Dell Pro Max with GB10 can handle models with 30 billion to 200 billion parameters, the Dell Pro Precision 9 tower workstation can handle models up to 500 billion parameters, and the Dell Pro Max with GB300 can support cutting-edge models with up to 1 trillion parameters.

Building sovereign AI infrastructure relies not only on hardware but also on a verifiable software ecosystem. Dell Technologies simultaneously launched the Dell AI Ecosystem Program, providing AI software vendors with a structured path for formal validation and blueprint design on Dell AI Factory infrastructure. The program aims to integrate fragmented AI innovations into validated, deployable solutions, offering enterprise customers a curated catalog covering areas such as model services, data platforms, MLOps, observability, and security governance, complete with reusable deployment blueprints and support boundary definitions. This initiative directly addresses the most common concern enterprises have about AI deployment—system integration uncertainty.

At the frontier model level for sovereign AI, Dell Technologies announced an expanded strategic partnership with France's Mistral AI. Mistral AI is bringing its language and reasoning models, along with orchestration tools, to Dell AI Factory, allowing enterprises to deploy these models on-premises or in secure environments while maintaining full control over their data. Marjorie Janiewicz, Chief Revenue Officer of Mistral AI, emphasized that customers need AI that can run on their own infrastructure, which is the core value of the collaboration with Dell. Mistral's own research environment also runs on liquid-cooled Dell PowerRack systems equipped with PowerEdge XE9712 servers and NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 rack-scale supercomputers. Additionally, Dell Technologies is providing enterprises with on-premises deployment access to optimized open-source models like DeepSeek through the Dell Enterprise Hub on Hugging Face, and is collaborating with Google to bring the Gemini 3 Flash model into a fully on-premises confidential computing environment.

A generational upgrade of the infrastructure foundation is advancing simultaneously. Dell Technologies introduced a new generation of PowerEdge systems based on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 platform, with the XE9812 server reducing the per-token cost of Agentic AI inference to one-tenth that of the Blackwell platform. The new PowerRack rack-scale family integrates liquid cooling, integrated power delivery, and intelligent network management, offering turnkey deployment capabilities for sovereign clouds and AI factories. The PowerSwitch series switches are simultaneously integrated with NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand and Spectrum-6 Ethernet, eliminating network bottlenecks in large-scale AI deployments. Dell Technologies indicated that AI server shipments are expected to reach approximately $25 billion in fiscal year 2026, representing a year-over-year increase of about 150%.

The customer base already running production workloads on Dell AI Factory spans multiple sectors, including semiconductors, life sciences, and sovereign clouds. Samsung Electronics has deployed Dell AI solutions across its global semiconductor design, manufacturing, and automation operations, using AI agents to analyze equipment telemetry and inspection outputs to support digital twins and yield optimization. Eli Lilly and Company runs the LillyPod AI supercomputer on Dell storage infrastructure, keeping over 1,000 GPUs fully utilized with a read bandwidth of nearly 2TB/s. In the sovereign AI domain, Europe's S-AI project and IT4LIA AI Factory, as well as India's NxtGen AI Factory, have all built national-level AI infrastructure based on Dell AI Factory.

Arthur Lewis, President of the Infrastructure Solutions Group at Dell Technologies, stated at the conference that organizations shaping the future of AI need integrated and scaled infrastructure that matches their ambitions, and that Dell Technologies is building a complete AI infrastructure continuum from desktop to data center. From the strategic positioning of sovereign AI to the product realization of Deskside Agentic AI, and the scaled validation of over 5,000 deployed customers, Dell Technologies is seeking to establish its position as the preferred platform for on-premises deployment in the AI infrastructure market.

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