Broadcom unveils VMware Private AI Cloud at VMware Explore 2026

August 31, 2026 at 06:00 PM2 min

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Broadcom Inc. introduced VMware Private AI Cloud, an integrated software stack for enterprises to build and run AI applications alongside conventional workloads while keeping data, models, and infrastructure under their control. Announced at the VMware Explore 2026 conference in Las Vegas, the offering combines VMware Cloud Foundation infrastructure with a new VMware AI Factory, validated AI models, VMware Tanzu agent-development and data services, AgentMinder governance software, and expanded security protections. Broadcom also unveiled TrueSource, a portfolio of commercially supported and verifiably built open-source software.

Key Facts

VMware Private AI Cloud combines VMware Cloud Foundation infrastructure with a new VMware AI Factory, validated AI models, VMware Tanzu agent-development and data services, AgentMinder governance software, and expanded security protections.
Broadcom also unveiled TrueSource, a portfolio of commercially supported and verifiably built open-source software.
VCF 9, the foundation of the offering, has more than 3,000 customer deployments representing over 19 million allocated processor cores.
VMware AI Factory initial configurations include AMD Instinct MI350-series graphics processors and servers from Cisco, Lenovo, and Super Micro Computer.
Customers can run more than 150 open-source and commercial models, including Nvidia Nemotron 3, Google DeepMind Gemma 4, NEC cotomi, Alibaba Qwen 3.7-Max, and z.ai GLM 5.2.

Platform Foundation

The foundation is VCF 9, which supports virtual machines, containers, inference workloads, and agentic applications on one platform. Broadcom said VCF 9 has more than 3,000 customer deployments representing over 19 million allocated processor cores. Its nonvolatile memory express memory-tiering technology can replace lower-cost flash storage for some dynamic random-access memory and has reduced per-host costs by up to 42% in customer deployments while maintaining performance, Shenoy said. Cluster-wide storage deduplication is intended to further reduce capacity requirements, while token monitoring, graphics processing unit tracking, and an AI metrics dashboard provide operators with visibility into resource consumption.

AI Factory and Models

VMware AI Factory packages VCF with hardware, accelerators, AI software, and models that Broadcom and its partners have tested together. Initial configurations include Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s Instinct MI350-series graphics processors and servers from Cisco Systems Inc., Lenovo Group Ltd., and Super Micro Computer Inc. Integration with MetalSoft Cloud Inc.’s orchestration platform automates provisioning and lifecycle management across heterogeneous bare-metal systems through the VCF operations console. The platform supports accelerators from AMD, Intel Corp., and Nvidia Corp. and uses vLLM as its default model for inference and LLM serving. Broadcom said customers can run more than 150 open-source and commercial models, including Nvidia’s Corp.’s Nemotron 3, Google LLC DeepMind’s Gemma 4, NEC Corp.’s Japanese-language cotomi, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s Qwen 3.7-Max, and GLM 5.2 from Jingsheng Hengxing Technology Pte. Ltd., better known as z.ai.