WEKA Expands NVIDIA Integrations and Certifications, Unveils Augmented Memory Grid at GTC 2025

Accelerates AI Reasoning With the NVIDIA AI Data Platform and Achieves New Storage Certifications for NVIDIA Cloud Partners and Enterprise Deployments

SAN JOSE, Calif. and CAMPBELL, Calif., March 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- From GTC 2025: WEKA, the AI-native data platform company, announced it is integrating with the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design and has achieved NVIDIA storage certifications to provide optimized AI infrastructure for the future of agentic AI and reasoning models. Additionally, the company announced new certifications for the NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) Reference Architecture with NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 and the NVIDIA-Certified Systemsâ„¢ Storage designation for enterprise AI factory deployments with NVIDIA Enterprise Reference Architectures.

WEKA also unveiled its new Augmented Memory Gridâ„¢ capability, which integrates WEKA Data Platform software with NVIDIA accelerated computing, networking, and enterprise software to accelerate AI inference, maximize the number of tokens processed per second, and dramatically increase token efficiency.

Powering AI Agents with WEKA's High-Performance Storage
NVIDIA AI Data Platform is redefining enterprise infrastructure for the era of agentic AI. It provides a customizable reference design integrating the NVIDIA Blackwell platform, NVIDIA BlueField® DPUs, NVIDIA Spectrum-Xâ„¢ networking, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software with enterprise storage to transform data into actionable intelligence. Organizations can now leverage the benefits of the NVIDIA AI Data Platform with WEKA Data Platform software to create a massively scalable, high-performance foundation for enterprise AI that connects AI query agents to business knowledge, and achieves peak AI inference performance and higher accuracy for complex reasoning.

Breaking the AI Memory Barrier with WEKA Augmented Memory Grid
AI agents continue to expand autonomous decision-making, complex problem-solving, and adaptive learning capabilities, increasing the need for AI infrastructure that can support longer context windows, expanding model parameters, and growing system memory requirements. With WEKA Augmented Memory Grid, AI models can extend memory for large model inferencing with additional petabytes of capacity by three orders of magnitude greater than today's fixed increments of single terabytes. At the same time, the WEKA Augmented Memory Grid can deliver near-memory speed performance at microsecond latencies for faster token processing, enabling unprecedented reasoning outcomes. Key benefits include:

Advancing Enterprise AI Innovation with New NVIDIA Storage Certifications
WEKApod™ Nitro Data Platform Appliances have been certified as one of the first high-performance storage solutions for NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) deployments with NVIDIA HGX H200, B200, and GB200 NVL72, to supercharge NCP providers' infrastructure services for AI developers and innovators. WEKApod appliances deliver high-performance density and power efficiency — a single 8U entry-level configuration can support up to 1,152 GPUs.

WEKApodâ„¢ Nitro appliances have also achieved the new NVIDIA-Certified Systems Storage designation for enterprises deploying AI factories based on NVIDIA Enterprise Reference Architecture guidelines with NVIDIA-Certified Systems. This certification validates that the WEKA Data Platform is compatible with NVIDIA best practices to ensure optimal storage performance, efficiency, and scalability for a wide range of enterprise AI and HPC workloads.

"In collaboration with NVIDIA, WEKA is delivering high-performance AI storage solutions to organizations with the NVIDIA AI Data Platform, tackling data challenges that constrain AI innovation and force compromises in model capabilities and infrastructure efficiency," said Nilesh Patel, chief product officer at WEKA. "Just as breaking the sound barrier unlocked new frontiers in aerospace innovation, WEKA Augmented Memory Grid is shattering the AI memory barrier, expanding GPU memory and optimizing token efficiency across the NVIDIA AI Data Platform. This breakthrough will transform AI token economics, enabling faster innovation at lower costs without compromising performance."

"Enterprises looking to harness the power of agentic AI and reasoning models need unprecedented efficiency and scalability for these demanding workloads," said Rob Davis, vice president, Storage Networking Technology at NVIDIA. "Pairing NVIDIA and WEKA technologies enables AI agents to access and process data with state-of-the-art speed and accuracy during inference."

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Visit us at NVIDIA GTC 2025: Attendees can visit the WEKA booth in the GTC Expo Hall to demo the new WEKA Augmented Memory Grid capability. 

Supporting Customer Quotes

Together AI
"At Together AI, we are obsessed with speed and efficiency. That's why we built the Together Inference Engine that provides the fastest inference speeds in the industry," said Ce Zhang, chief technology officer at Together AI. "We are excited to leverage WEKA's Augmented Memory Grid capability to reduce the time involved in prompt caching and improve the flexibility of leveraging this cache across multiple nodes— reducing latency and benefitting the more than 500,000 AI developers building on Together AI."

Yotta Data Services
"The WEKA Data Platform plays a key role in enhancing the performance and scalability of the Yotta Shakti Supercloud, India's fastest AI supercomputing platform," said Sunil Gupta, co-founder, managing director & CEO at Yotta Data Services, an NVIDIA Cloud Partner. "WEKA's innovative Augmented Memory Grid capability and its certification as a high-performance data store for NVIDIA Blackwell deployments bring new efficiencies for AI at cloud scale. By extending GPU memory and maximizing utilization across our Shakti Supercloud fleet, WEKA will help us deliver improved AI performance, faster inference, and better cost efficiency to our customers."

About WEKA
WEKA is architecting a new approach to the enterprise data stack built for the AI era. The WEKA® Data Platform sets the standard for AI infrastructure with a cloud and AI-native architecture that can be deployed anywhere, providing seamless data portability across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments. It transforms legacy data silos into dynamic data pipelines that accelerate GPUs, AI model training, inference, and other performance-intensive workloads, enabling them to work more efficiently, consume less energy, and reduce associated carbon emissions. WEKA helps the world's most innovative enterprises and research organizations overcome complex data challenges to reach discoveries, insights, and outcomes faster and more sustainably – including 12 of the Fortune 50. Visit www.weka.io to learn more, or connect with WEKA on LinkedIn and X.

WEKA and the WEKA logo are registered trademarks of WekaIO, Inc. Other trade names used herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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WEKA Expands NVIDIA Integrations and Certifications, Unveils Augmented Memory Grid at GTC 2025

SAN DIEGO, March 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Shield AI, the deep-tech company building state-of-the-art AI-powered autonomy software products and defense aircraft, today announced a partnership with Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) to accelerate development of AI pilots, a core technology for KAI's manned/unmanned teaming capabilities by utilizing Shield AI's AI-powered, modular and scalable autonomy software products.  

"KAI is pioneering the future of next-generation aerospace, driving advancements in AI-powered autonomy for defense aircraft," said Nathan Michael, Chief Technology Officer at Shield AI. "Developing autonomy is complex and costly, but Hivemind Enterprise eliminates these barriers—supercharging lean teams to build complex autonomy behaviors at rapid pace and production quality, helping them to get to flight in a record time. Hivemind Enterprise has been applied to the F-16, MQ-20, MQM-178, V-BATs and quadcopters. This partnership reflects the growing global demand for intelligent, mission-ready autonomy platform and marks a significant step toward a future where autonomous systems transform air, maritime and ground combat." 

Hivemind Enterprise is an autonomy software suite for developers and organizations building, testing, evaluating, and deploying autonomy for intelligent machines. It accelerates autonomy development by delivering a multi-year head start with platform products, AI-powered toolsets, and leveraging Shield AI's proven edge autonomy work enabling unmanned systems to operate in GPS- and comms-denied environments. The Hivemind Enterprise product suite includes an integrated autonomy factory, industrial-grade production ready middleware, a rich autonomy catalog, and seamless mission control, empowering developers to build and own their mission-ready autonomy solutions with unprecedented speed and flexibility. 

"KAI will rapidly verify its independently developed AI Pilot technologies through various methods and elevate them to a world-class level," said a KAI official.  

Shield AI's exclusive technology partner in Korea, Quantum Aero, will support the integration effort, fostering collaboration between South Korean aerospace companies and advanced AI technologies. 

About Shield AI 

Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense technology company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent, autonomous systems. Its products include Hivemind Enterprise—EdgeOS, Pilot, Commander, and Forge—as well as V-BAT and Sentient Vision Systems (wide-area motion imaging software). With offices in San Diego, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Abu Dhabi (UAE), Kyiv (Ukraine), and Melbourne (Australia), Shield AI's technology actively supports U.S. and allied operations worldwide. 

For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, and Instagram. 

Media Contact: Lily Hinz; media@shield.ai 

About KAI 

Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) is South Korea's sole aircraft system integrator and manufacturer. Since its establishment in October 1999, KAI has led the nation's aerospace industry with a diverse portfolio spanning fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, satellites, and launch vehicles. Its major clients include the Republic of Korea Air Force, Army, Navy, international military organizations, and global aerospace giants such as Airbus, Boeing, and Embraer. KAI operates across four key sectors: domestic projects, aerostructure manufacturing, space projects, and aircraft exports. 

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Shield AI partners with Korea Aerospace Industries to advance AI-powered autonomy with Hivemind Enterprise