🚨 Last Chance to Save on #OCPSummit26#! 🚨 Today is your LAST DAY to register for the 2026 OCP Global Summit at the Early Registration rate. Starting tomorrow, August 1, registration increases from $800 to $1,000. Join the global open infrastructure community October 12 to 15, 2026 in San Jose, California, for four days of groundbreaking keynotes, technical sessions, collaborative workshops, the Innovation Village, and unparalleled networking with the leaders shaping the future of AI infrastructure. Don't wait. Register today to secure the best rate before prices increase. 👉 #OCPSummit26# #OpenCompute# #AIInfrastructure# #OpenInfrastructure# #DataCenter# #Innovation#

Three Days. Three Virtual Events. One Week of Learning with OCP. Join the Open Compute Project Community this week for three free virtual events exploring the technologies, skills and infrastructure shaping the AI era. 📅 Tuesday, August 25 | 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET OCP AI Next Generation: Open Data Center for AI Virtual Workshop Explore the Datacenter: Next-Generation ML Infrastructure Design Principles specification and the technical challenges of building AI/ML infrastructure at scale, from power and cooling to system architecture. 📅 Wednesday, August 26 | 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET Women in OCP Empower Hour: Thriving in the Era of AI Session 3: Vibe Coding & Building Intelligent Agents Experts from Meta and Microsoft will explore what it takes to design, build and deploy reliable AI agents, including proven design patterns, real-world lessons and common pitfalls. The session concludes with a live demonstration of "vibe coding" an AI Agent, showing how an idea can quickly become a working intelligent solution. 📅 Thursday, August 27 | 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET OCP Educational Webinar: Open Standards, Infinite Possibilities: The Future of Custom Engineering for Rack & Power Solutions Join Legrand and Semi Analysis for a discussion on balancing OCP's open standards with the increasingly specialized power, thermal and spatial requirements of AI, edge and cloud infrastructure. 💻 All three events are virtual and free to attend. 👉 Learn more and register: #OpenCompute# #OCP# #AI# #ArtificialIntelligence# #DataCenters# #AgenticAI# #OpenInfrastructure# #WOCP#

The Open Compute Project Foundation thrives because of the volunteers who generously share their knowledge, leadership, and commitment to advancing open infrastructure innovation throughout the global technology community. Their time and expertise are essential to driving OCP’s mission forward. Today, we are proud to recognize one of these outstanding contributors. Raj Kapoor - AMD What is your role in the OCP Community? Raj is a key volunteer leader within the OCP Open Platform Firmware Project and serves as Project Lead. He has been a strong advocate for open firmware development and has helped drive meaningful contributions and engagement from across the ecosystem, including leadership and participation from AMD. How long have you been involved with OCP? Raj began engaging with industry partners on open firmware initiatives around 2019 and became actively involved with OCP shortly thereafter through the OCP OSF project (Open System Firmware), now Open Platform Firmware (OPF) Project. Over the years, Raj has had the privilege of helping lead several key community initiatives, including openSFI (Open Silicon Firmware Interface) and UPCI (Unified Platform Configuration Interface). These efforts brought together silicon providers, system manufacturers, firmware vendors and hyperscalers to address some of the industry’s most pressing challenges around cost, TTM (time to market), scalability, interoperability, and long-sustainability of platform firmware and silicon enablement. Why do you volunteer your time to OCP? Raj believes open collaboration accelerates innovation. Through OCP, he helps create an environment where companies can work together on common challenges and build solutions that benefit the broader industry. What impact has OCP had on you professionally? OCP has provided Raj the opportunity to collaborate with technology leaders across the ecosystem, helping align firmware and platform initiatives while contributing to industry-wide standards and best practices. What are you most excited about right now? Raj is particularly excited about the increasing importance of open, secure, and scalable platform firmware as AI, cloud, and next-generation infrastructure continue to evolve. Something people may not know about you? Raj is widely respected for his ability to bring together diverse technical stakeholders and build consensus around complex engineering challenges. Volunteer Leadership Quote: “Open collaboration creates stronger technologies and a stronger industry.”

Today’s AI takeoff stands on decades of open research and open infrastructure. The Transformer. Backpropagation. ImageNet. PyTorch. TensorFlow. JAX. CUDA. Linux. Books, the open Internet, and millions of open-source codebases on GitHub that became training data. Without all these, today’s AI labs and companies simply would not exist.

Our GTC takeaway is clear: NVIDIA is betting hard on open. - NemoClaw turns OpenClaw into enterprise infrastructure. - Nemotron 4 will be open-sourced. - Nemotron Coalition puts eight labs on a shared open frontier model. This is what we've been building toward. Open infrastructure for open intelligence is the direction the biggest AI companies are taking.

Mystery Over @openstandard: Korean Giants Express Bewilderment After Inclusion in Stablecoin Alliance While the newly unveiled global stablecoin alliance "Open Standard" has generated massive buzz by announcing its upcoming dollar-pegged stablecoin, $OUSD, mystery shrouds its member list as several major South Korean conglomerates deny active participation. Despite Open Standard claiming backing from 140+ global giants alongside top Korean firms like @Samsung, Dunamu (operator of @Official_Upbit), and Shinhan Financial Group, multiple local entities have clarified they never had formal discussions or commitments, expressing bewilderment over their surprise inclusion. OUSD aims to challenge the dominant @tether and @circle duopoly through an open infrastructure model that distributes reserve yield back to its network partners, but growing skepticism over its actual corporate partnerships could overshadow its ambitious launch.

I get asked a lot: “Is my project aligned with Arc?” My answer: Arc is an open infrastructure, so build, test and push your ideas freely. IMO, your better question is "why should my idea for a project even exist?" Wrote more on Arc House ↓

Nvidia makes the chips. @nvidia owns the software stack. Now it reportedly wants @huggingface too. A $12.9B bid for the front door to open-source AI. Maybe the models stay open. But if compute, tooling, and distribution all answer to one company, the ecosystem isn't. The future of AI needs open infrastructure. Not vertical integration dressed up as one.

It’s #TrackTuesday#! 👀 Every Tuesday leading up to the 2026 OCP Global Summit, we’re spotlighting tracks bringing the OCP Community together around the technologies shaping the future of open infrastructure. This week: Server + Rack & Power From modular server architectures and next-generation interconnects to megawatt-scale racks, advanced power delivery and thermal design, these tracks explore how infrastructure is evolving to meet the performance, power and density demands of AI at scale. Explore the tracks and start building your #OCPSummit26# agenda at 📍 San Jose, California 📅 October 12–15, 2026