Dell Technologies today launched a suite of AI products at its Dell Technologies World conference, designed to bridge the gap between AI experimentation and large-scale production.
Sam Grocott, Dell’s senior vice president of product marketing, framed the news as a direct response to what he called the enterprise “AI execution problem.” He said companies are struggling with data management, energy consumption, sovereignty, and rising cloud costs.
The centerpiece is the new Dell Deskside Agentic AI. This offering combines Dell workstations, Nvidia’s NemoClaw software stack, and Dell services. It allows organizations to run open-weight AI models locally, keeping sensitive data in-house. Dell claims this can cut costs by up to 87% compared to using public cloud over two years.
Jon Siegal, senior vice president of Dell’s client solutions group, illustrated the cost issue: one developer burned through $3,400 in cloud costs in a single day by consuming 1 billion tokens. Dell’s deskside systems aim to eliminate such bills.
Beyond agentic AI, Dell updated its AI Data Platform with enhanced orchestration and search that can index billions of files and speed up vector indexing by 12-fold. The company also introduced GPU-accelerated SQL analytics with Nvidia and Starburst, promising six times faster query performance on Nvidia Blackwell GPUs.
On the infrastructure side, Dell unveiled PowerRack, a turnkey rack-scale system integrating compute, networking, storage, and cooling. “Customers no longer need to buy components and hope they work together,” said Varun Chhabra.
Dell also expanded ecosystem partnerships with Google, OpenAI, Palantir, ServiceNow, and Hugging Face. Google Gemini and OpenAI’s Codex will now run on Dell infrastructure. Most products will be available by 2026.