# Val Bercovici

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(AI) Data at the Speed of Thought with WEKA - TopShelfTech

Everyone talks about GPUs in AI. Few talk about the bottleneck that really matters - memory. Jeremy Nees sits down with WEKA's CTO Shimon Ben David and Principal Product Manager Val Bercovici to reveal how data access speed makes or breaks AI performance.

A Conversation with Val Bercovici about Disaggregated Prefill / Decode

This transcript is lightly edited for readability. Doug: Welcome to Fabricated Knowledge. This is a podcast edition today, and I have the special honor of having Val Bercovici from Weka. And today, we wanted to specifically highlight an important trend I think everyone should be paying attention t…

WEKA on AI Data Centers: A New Infrastructure Playbook

In this episode, Allyson Klein, Scott Shadley, and Jeneice Wnorowski (Solidigm) talk with Val Bercovici (WEKA) about aligning hardware and software, scaling AI productivity, and building next-gen data centers.

A New Era of Context Memory with Val Bercovici from WEKA

Vik and Val Bercovici discuss the evolution of storage solutions in the context of AI, focusing on Weka's innovative approaches to context memory, high bandwidth flash, and the importance of optimizing GPU usage. Val shares insights from his extensive experience in the storage industry, highlightin…

Why Memory Is AI's Most Underestimated Layer

Storage used to be an afterthought. In the era of trillion-parameter models and agent swarms consuming millions of tokens per session, it has become one of the most strategically critical layers in the AI stack. On this episode of MindMakers, John Kim is joined by Val Bercovici, Chief AI Officer at…

WEKA's Val Bercovici: KV Cache, DeepSeek V4, HBF, SLC vs QLC NAND, CXL, NVLink, Tokenomics

Vik welcomes Val Bercovici from Weka to discuss the rapidly evolving landscape of AI memory and storage. Val explains how Weka's architecture leverages high-bandwidth networks to make storage faster than motherboard DRAM. They dive into KV cache optimizations, the future of NAND flash tiers, and th…

The Revenge of the Middle: Managers, Memory, and the Real AI Bottleneck

AI spending is outpacing budgets, and most organizations don't know why. Dr. Serena Huang sits down with Val Bercovici of WEKA to unpack why enterprise AI costs keep rising despite falling model prices. They dig into the three tiers of enterprise token consumption, the memory shortage reshaping AI …

Can AI Innovation Survive Its Own Energy Appetite?

As AI scales, energy demands are growing 100x and efficiency is no longer optional. Dr. Serena Huang sits down with Daria Mukhortova, Head of Sustainability at Nebius, and Val Bercovici, Chief AI Officer at WEKA, to examine whether innovation can outpace its own energy appetite. They explore how ef…

AI Broke the Yardstick. Now What?

PUE can tell you how well a data center uses power, but not whether AI is creating value. Dr. Serena Huang sits down with Vernon Turner, IoT and Sustainability Advisor at Cognizant, and Val Bercovici, Chief AI Officer at WEKA, to break down how leaders should be measuring AI. They talk about what t…

Why AI’s next bottleneck is memory, not GPUs

This week, we dig into why the AI infrastructure conversation is shifting from compute scarcity to the memory wall. As large language models get bigger and enterprises move from training to high-volume inference, memory, storage, networking and GPU utilization are becoming critical to AI performanc…