# Episode 102 - The training to inference passageway with Sumti Jairath, SambaNova

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Podcast: [DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dcd-zero-downtime-the-bi-weekly-data-center-show-4898114)
Published: 2026-04-30T12:40:21+00:00
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## Resource

With the AI industry fueling a shift away from training and towards inference, and claiming agentic AI as its next frontier, the need for hardware to support workloads that require high-compute and low-latency performance has never been greater. On this episode of Zero Downtime, DCD talks to Sumti Jairath, chief architect at SambaNova, about some of these driving forces, how the semiconductor industry has changed over the last decade, and what some of the biggest challenges facing chip companies right now are

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