Val Bercovici, WEKA Chief AI Officer on AI Infrastructure and Factories

Val Bercovici is Chief AI Officer at WEKA, where he focuses on building AI agent factories, accelerating training and inference infrastructure, and transforming token economics. He is also co-founder and Board Member of Embedded LLM, which is developing the Neocloud 2.0 operating system, and Chair of PencilDATA, a deep technology group working across AI, cybersecurity, and blockchain. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This episode is brought to you by Nebius — the ultimate cloud for AI innovators. Nebius provides AI infrastructure you can count on, combining reliability and speed with flexibility and engineering support unmatched by hyperscalers. AI leaders like Meta, Shopify, and Higgsfield already partner with Nebius to run their AI workloads. Plus, venture-backed startups can save up to $150,000 on compute costs when they apply for access. Visit nebius.com or nebius.com/startups to learn more ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Previously, Val served as CTO at NetApp/SolidFire and chaired the SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative. He was also a founding governing board member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which supports the Kubernetes ecosystem. His work spans agentic AI infrastructure, inference economics, and enterprise cloud operations. Topics Building the infrastructure for AI agent factories, from training and inference to deployment The economics of AI inference, including token costs, KV-cache infrastructure, and performance What the next generation of enterprise AI and neocloud platforms will require #ArtificialIntelligence #AIInfrastructure #AgenticAI #CloudComputing #Inference