What’s it going to take to build the Linux or Windows of AI operating systems? Surprise: there’s a laundry list of considerations.
Operating systems are variously defined in as many shades nuance as there are stars in the sky, because we’re all nerds here — and this is important, stick with me. It can be defined as software that identifies and configures physical and logical devices, or defined as software with assistant, management and monitoring capabilities, or defined as a revolution in the history of computing, abstracting away low-level details to put the power directly in the user’s hands, or any of a dozen other descriptions. Renen Hallak, founder and CEO of VAST Data (and speaker at VB Transform 2024), says AI requires a whole new kind of OS revolution in the enterprise — one that starts with a scalable data platform that can handle vast amounts of structured and unstructured data.