From gaming rigs to high-performance AI infrastructure, Julien Gauthier’s journey with Arkane Cloud mirrors the meteoric rise of GPU demand. Julien shares how a pivot from 3D rendering to AI compute positioned his Paris-based company at the forefront of the AI infrastructure wave.
Julien walks us through the evolution of NVIDIA’s architecture, the challenges of deploying high-density GPU clusters, and why American AI companies are flocking to France for inference workloads. Operating a 1,000-GPU cluster with plans to scale to 6,000, Arkane Cloud is building the backbone of the AI era, one cabinet at a time.
From financing hurdles to liquid cooling breakthroughs, this is a deep dive into what it really takes to deliver GPU-as-a-service at scale.
Uplink explores the future of connectivity, cloud, and AI - with the people shaping it. Hosted by Michael Reid, we dive into cutting-edge trends with top industry experts.