The Future of AI Infrastructure with CoreWeave
As AI applications become more complex, the infrastructure powering them needs to evolve. Corey Sanders, SVP of Product at CoreWeave, joins Chris to discuss why AI requires a fundamentally different approach than traditional cloud computing. They explore AI-native infrastructure, training and inference workloads, the rise of agentic development, optimizing GPU performance, AI research workflows, and why the future of software will be built around AI-first experiences rather than websites and apps.
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Corey Sanders – LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Website, LinkedIn, Bluesky, GitHub, X
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Inside the $41B AI Cloud Challenging Big Tech | CoreWeave SVP
The future of AI training is shaped by one constraint: keeping GPUs fed.
In this episode, Lukas Biewald talks with CoreWeave SVP Corey Sanders about why general-purpose clouds start to break down under large-scale AI workloads.
According to Corey, the industry is shifting toward a "Neo Cloud" model to handle the unique demands of modern models.
They dive into the hardware and software stack required to maximize GPU utilization and achieve high goodput.
Corey’s conclusion is clear: AI demands specialization.
Connect with us here:
Corey Sanders: https://www.linkedin.com/in/corey-sanders-842b72/
CoreWeave: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coreweave/
Lukas Biewald: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lbiewald/
Weights & Biases: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wandb/
(00:00) Trailer
(00:57) Introduction
(02:51) The Evolution of AI Workloads
(06:22) Core Weave's Technological Innovations
(13:58) Customer Engagement and Future Prospects
(28:49) Comparing Cloud Approaches
(33:50) Balancing Executive Roles and Hands-On Projects
(46:44) Product Development and Customer Feedback
Microsoft & the Next Level of Transformation with Corey Sanders
About Corey Sanders:
Corey Sanders is the Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Solutions, an organization dedicated to partnering with customers as they transform into successful digital businesses.
He is responsible for sales strategy and corporate technical sales across Solution Areas and Teams that include Azure Applications & Infrastructure, Azure Data & AI, Business Applications, Cybersecurity Solutions Group, and Modern Workplace. His focus also includes selling the full value of Microsoft cross-cloud solutions and advancing the technical depth of the Microsoft Solutions team.
Prior to this role, Corey was Head of Product for Azure Compute and the founder of Microsoft Azure’s infrastructure as a service (IaaS) business. During that time, he was responsible for products, strategy and technical vision aligned to core Azure compute services. He also previously led program management for multiple Azure services. Earlier in his career, Corey was a developer in the Windows Serviceability team with ownership across the networking and kernel stack for Windows.
Corey joined Microsoft in 2004 after graduating from Princeton University and resides in New Jersey.
Links Referenced:
Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/coreysanderswa
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/corey-sanders-842b72/
Episode 65: Cloud Coreyography Mark 2 with Azure’s Corey Sanders
About Corey Sanders
Corey Sanders has 15 years of experience at Microsoft with 13 years of managerial experience. In the last 9 years, Corey has been in the Azure team building the Azure Compute service, and he recently moved into a new role as Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Solutions.
Links Referenced
Twitter: @CoreySandersWA
Microsoft Azure
The impact of AI at Microsoft (Interview)
We’re on location at Microsoft Build 2018 talking with Corey Sanders and Steve Guggenheimer — two Microsoft veterans focused on artificial intelligence and cloud computing. We talked about the direction and convergence of AI, ethics, cloud computing, and how the day to day lives of developers will change because of the advancements in AI.
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Featuring:
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Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
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Episode 9: Cloud Coreyography
Microsoft has experienced a renaissance. By everything that we've seen coming out of Microsoft over the past few years, it feels like the company is really walking the walk. Instead of just talking about how it’s innovative, it’s demonstrating that. Microsoft has been on an amazing journey, making the progression from telling customers what they need to listening to them and responding by building what they ask for.
Today, we’re talking to Corey Sanders, Corporate Vice President of Azure Compute at Microsoft.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
Customers are asking for Microsoft to help them through support and enabling platforms
Storytelling efforts through advocates, who play a double role – engaging and defending Microsoft
Customers moving to the Cloud are focused on a continuum and progression; they have stuff to move from one location to another and want all the benefits–better agility, faster startup time, etc.
Virtual serial console into existing VMs; this is how people are using this and Microsoft is going to, if not encourage this behavior, at least support it
Microsoft is the only Cloud with a single-instance SLA
Serial consoles: Windows' has seen less usage, partly due to operational aspects of Windows vs. Linux. It's not a GUI; it's scripting.
Does the operating system matter? From a Cloud perspective, it shouldn't have to matter; you should be able to deploy it the way you want
Edge enables much more complex and segregated scenarios; that combination with cognitive searches running locally will make it accessible anywhere
Branding challenge as customers start to notice that devices are smarter and more complex; will they lose awareness that Microsoft Azure is powering most of these things - they shouldn’t care
An awareness of not just what's possible, but what's coming; the democratization of AI
Education and fear gap of trying something new and taking that first step; make products and services stupid and simple to use
Customers return to add cognitive services and AI capabilities to existing, running deployments, environments, and applications
Multi-Cloud solutions can be successful, but there's a caveat; they’re actually built on a service-by-service perspective
Azure Stack, offers consistency, but some people may place blame on it for poor data center management practices; some expectations and regulations may be frustrating to some customers, but lets Microsoft offer a consistent experience
Freedom and flexibility have been challenges for Microsoft and other products for private Clouds
What people need to understand about Azure, including from a durability and reliability experience
To some extent, scale becomes a necessary prerequisite for some applications
Microsoft has taken many steps and is the leader in various areas
Links:
ReactiveOps
Microsoft Azure
Corey Sanders on Twitter
The Robot Uprising Will Have Very Clean Floors
Kubernetes
Cassandra
Azure Stack
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