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This video is a special presentation from theCUBE in Palo Alto, featuring a panel of AI and infrastructure leaders discussing the future of large scale AI infrastructure globally. The panel includes experts Joseph S. Spence, Kevin Cochrane, Andy Hock, and Shehram Jamal. They outline the stages of AI infrastructure development from initial buildout, enterprise deployment, global distribution, to physical AI applications intersecting with robotics. The discussion highlights the importance of sovereign AI, data privacy, local innovation, and distributed computing across regions to enable diverse digital ecosystems. The panel explores how AI democratizes innovation, the role of open source, the economic and societal impact of AI, and the growing demand for compute to support rapid advances. Emerging themes include the co-design of hardware and software stacks, the need for scalable and sovereign cloud infrastructure, the rise of new AI researcher talent, and the transformative effect of AI on jobs, enterprise workflows, and society. Each expert shares excitement about ongoing projects and emphasizes the necessity of collaboration to realize AI’s full potential by 2030 through sustained investment, infrastructure growth, and policy development.