Techstrong Gang - 1/31/25

In our second special episode of Techstrong Gang, recorded live at AI Field Day in San Jose, Mitch is joined by co-host Stephen Foskett and special guests Gina Rosenthal of Digital Sunshine Solutions and John Willis. The panel first considers the VMware private AI platform from Broadcom and the GPU sharing technology of MemVerge, both of which were presented at AI Field Day on Wednesday.

The second segment focuses on the latest AI coding assistant technology, exploring whether it can augment or replace developers. The final segment looks at Alibaba’s new Qwen2.5-Max, which is said to have surpassed DeepSeek in terms of inferencing performance.