Day 1 Keynote: Unleash the Future of AI
May 18, 2026 · 1h 6m · Las Vegas, Nevada
Dell's 2026 message was "hybrid AI": bring frontier and open models to enterprise data on premises. The Dell AI Factory added open models (DeepSeek, MiniMax, GLM, Kimi, Gemma, Nemotron, Mistral), Google Distributed Cloud with Gemini, an on-prem solution built on OpenAI's Codex, Palantir Foundry on Dell storage, and faster analytics with Starburst and NVIDIA.
What it announced
- Open models on the Dell AI Factory · DellDeepSeek, MiniMax, GLM, Kimi, Gemma, Nemotron, MistralGA
- Google Distributed Cloud with Gemini on Dell · DellGemini models on premisesAnnounced
- OpenAI Codex on Dell · DellOn-prem agentic coding solutionAnnounced
- Palantir Foundry on Dell storage · DellOntology on ObjectScale and PowerFlexAnnounced
- Starburst analytics with NVIDIA · DellVera CPUs and Blackwell GPUs for SQLAnnounced