Aerospike Chief Evangelist Sesh Seshadri emphasized the critical role of high-performance data infrastructure in enhancing AI capabilities during his presentation at Align AI in San Francisco. He highlighted the increasing demands predictive, generative, and agentic AI place on database systems, requiring sub-millisecond latency and high throughput to maintain real-time decision-making quality. Seshadri shared examples of enterprises like PayPal, AppLovin, Wayfair, and Barclays that have successfully leveraged Aerospike's infrastructure to improve AI performance, demonstrating significant improvements in speed, accuracy, and efficiency. He explained that Aerospike’s Hybrid Memory Architecture enables predictable performance by balancing memory-speed access with disk-level efficiency, which is crucial as data volumes grow. As AI systems evolve from experimentation to production, the emphasis on performance, cost, and reliability becomes integral to achieving scalable and practical AI solutions.