Paul Bloch
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- RAISE Summit12 min
Paul Bloch, DDN ｜ RAISE Summit 2025
DDN, a self-funded startup transitioning from high-performance computing to AI infrastructure, has solidified its position as a critical partner for NVIDIA and XAI by deploying storage solutions capable of scaling from single GPUs to over one million. The company recently launched its Infinia data ocean platform to support massive foundation model training and low-latency inference, capitalizing on the emerging sovereign AI trend where nations integrate government and infrastructure into unified national data platforms. Despite intense market competition, DDN leverages its deep Caltech R&D roots and founder-led culture to retain customers who require the extreme scale and performance necessary for next-generation AI workloads.
- RAISE Summit17 min
DDN President, Paul Bloch: AI is the Pivot -- Data is the Power
Paul Bloch, co-founder of DDN, outlined the emerging fifth industrial revolution at the Paris Race Summit, emphasizing that while Nvidia dominates training, the industry is rapidly pivoting toward massive inference farms and sovereign AI infrastructure across Europe. DDN addresses this shift by managing the critical data layer for AI factories scaling to hundreds of thousands of GPUs, with its new Infinia product demonstrating a 22x acceleration in time-to-result and significant cost savings for clients like XAI and Google. As European nations invest billions in data sovereignty and global competitors race to deploy million-GPU clusters, the summit highlighted that human expertise remains essential to stabilize these complex systems while accelerating deployment across healthcare, finance, and energy sectors.