AI in Infrastructure Podcast
Data Governance, Sovereignty, and the Enterprise AI Infrastructure Playbook - with Rodrigo Liang of Sambanova
Enterprises are past asking whether LLMs work; the harder question is how to run them at scale without becoming dependent on a single model, cloud, or chip vendor — and without running out of power or data-center capacity in the process. In this episode, Rodrigo Liang, Co-founder and CEO of SambaNova, examines why sovereignty and business continuity now anchor enterprise infrastructure strategy, why regulated firms are keeping customer data inside their own firewalls as a first step, and why the enterprises moving fastest are planning for 100% of the business to be AI-enabled rather than gating use cases one at a time, with host Daniel Faggella, Emerj CEO and Head of Research. Liang outlines the practical shifts underway: from single-vendor stacks toward breadth across models, clouds, and chip architectures, from black-box outputs toward agentic workflows with checkable steps, and from scattered pilots toward code generation as the first use case that reveals what AI at scale will cost. To go deeper on this topic and learn how leading organizations approach AI investment more like a venture portfolio, and why interdisciplinary collaboration is critical to defining the right data for AI success, download our free PDF report, "Beginning with AI," at emerj.com/aik4
