VAST Data Reveals VAST AI Operating System, Commences the Company’s Long-Term Vision of Building a ‘Thinking Machine’
VAST Data is unveiling the VAST AI Operating System, a revolutionary platform purpose-built to fuel the next wave of AI breakthroughs.
According to the company, the VAST AI Operating System is the product of nearly ten years of engineering toward a single purpose: to create an intelligent platform architecture that can harness this new generation of AI supercomputing machinery and unlock the potential of AI at scale.
Developed from a clean sheet of paper, the platform is built on VAST’s groundbreaking Disaggregated Shared-Everything (DASE) architecture, making it possible to completely parallelize AI and analytics workloads, federate clusters into a unified computing and data cloud, and then feed new AI workloads with near-infinite amounts of data from one fast and affordable tier of storage.
“This isn’t a product release—it’s a milestone in the evolution of computing,” said Renen Hallak, founder and CEO of VAST Data. “We’ve spent the past decade reimagining how data and intelligence converge. … We’re proud to unveil the AI Operating System for a world that is no longer built around applications—but around agents.”
The AI Operating System consists of every aspect of a distributed system to run AI at global scale: a kernel to run platform services on from private to public cloud, a runtime to deploy AI agents with, eventing infrastructure for real-time event processing, messaging infrastructure, and a distributed file and database storage system that can be used for real-time data capture and analytics.
In addition to the VAST AI Operating System, AgentEngine features a new AI agent tool server that provides support for agents to invoke data, metadata, functions, web search or other agents using them as MCP-compatible tools.
AgentEngine allows agents to assume multiple personas with different purpose and security credentials, and provides secure, real-time access to different tools. The platform’s scheduler and fault-tolerant queuing mechanisms also ensure agent resilience against machine or service failure.
Just as operating systems ship with pre-built utilities, the VAST AgentEngine will feature a set of open-source Agents that VAST will release, once per month, to help accelerate the journey to AI computing. Some personal assistants will be tailored to industry use cases, whereas others will be designed for general purpose use, the company said.
The launch of the VAST AI Operating System comes as the company has reached a historic milestone: the fastest path to $2 billion in cumulative bookings of any data company in history, according to the company.
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