Choice Without Compromise: Inside Dell’s Expanding AI Ecosystem

Key takeaways: Dell Technologies is expanding its portfolio of AI solutions and introducing the AI Ecosystem Program to help organizations reliably deploy advanced AI workloads and enterprise use cases. 

Many organizations see AI as the key to staying competitive, but turning pilots into production remains tough. The pace of AI innovation is relentless. New models, new frameworks and new hardware arrive almost weekly. Data keeps growing in volume and complexity. Integrating AI into existing applications and workflows can be slow and risky.

At the same time, security, compliance and governance are under more scrutiny than ever. As AI starts to touch critical workloads, leaders can’t afford blind spots around data access, model behavior or auditability.

The AI vendor landscape is also crowded and constantly shifting. Now more than ever, organizations need complete solutions from trusted partners that are validated, secure and ready for production.

Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA addresses these challenges with modular architecture, AI software, automation and a growing ecosystem of leading AI providers. This approach helps you confidently select the right model, platform, and deployment architecture to deliver real-world value at every stage of your AI journey.

Bringing AI leaders to the enterprise

Dell is building new AI solutions with leading AI technology providers. These solutions help you maintain control over data, frontier models and operations while keeping sensitive information in trusted on-premises, sovereign cloud or hybrid environments. Here are the highlights.

• • Google and Dell are bringing Gemini 3 Flash models on Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) on Dell PowerEdge XE9780 servers. This fully integrated, on-premises solutions allows enterprises to run advanced AI workloads within a private confidential computing environment. By  leveraging a secure BIOS and security attestation, organizations can meet strict data protection, residency and sovereignty requirements. The collaboration supports the latest Gemini models, featuring expanded 1M+ context windows and advanced AI tools like Gemini CLI, delivering the security and control enterprises demand.
  • Dell Enterprise Hub on Hugging Face gives enterprises on-premises access to a curated collection of the latest open-weight models, including MiniMax-M2.7, DeepSeek Pro, DeepSeek-V4, GLM 5.1 and Kimi K2.6, optimized for Dell AI Factory infrastructure. This collaboration shifts the tokenomics of enterprise AI by giving organizations a trusted, secure and cost-efficient way to deploy the most capable open models where their data lives.
  • OpenAI and Dell are collaborating to help enterprises deploy Codex in the environments where their most important data, systems and workflows already live. Through this collaboration, Codex will connect with the Dell AI Data Platform (AIDP), which many businesses currently use to store, organize and govern enterprise data on-premises. The collaboration will help customers bring Codex closer to the internal context that makes agents useful: codebases, documentation, business systems, operational knowledge and team workflows. Dell and OpenAI will also explore how Codex can connect with the Dell AI Factory, which businesses use to power their AI workloads.
  • Palantir’s full Foundry and AIP platform is coming on-premises to the Dell AI Factory, where Palantir’s Ontology layer will be deployed on Dell ObjectScale and PowerFlex to ingest data from enterprise sources and automate business workflows using AI models. Organizations can connect and extract knowledge across their enterprise, define and dynamically manage relationships between data sources and optimize business operations within their own environment, on infrastructure they control.
  • Reflection and Dell are collaborating to bring Reflection’s open-source frontier AI models on-premises on the Dell AI Factory. Open models help enable enterprises in regulated industries including governments and sovereign entities to deploy AI in fully controlled environments. Reflection’s frontier-level quality models deployed on the Dell AI Factory, integrated with the Dell AI Data Platform, will help customers securely extract knowledge from on-premises data sources.
  • SpacexAI and Dell are bringing the SpaceXAI Enterprise Platform, including the latest models, on-premises. This will allow enterprises to connect to their existing data sources, integrate with Dell AIDP and get insights without having to move their data to the cloud or consume cloud models by token.

In addition to these providers, ServiceNow customers will be able to leverage the Dell AI Factory to bring together infrastructure and enterprise workflow automation, enabling organizations to discover, govern and operationalize AI focused on business outcomes.

Accelerating Enterprise Outcomes

Many organizations are pursuing a common set of AI use cases, ranging from knowledge assistants and agentic AI to computer vision immersive AI experiences, and code assistants. They want to get those into production quickly and begin operating at scale. Dell’s AI solutions are designed to rapidly and reliably deploy these enterprise outcomes without long integration cycles. They can be implemented directly from the Dell Automation Platform catalog, reducing average deployment time by 1 week,^¹ which is accomplished by automating more than 30 manual tasks,^² The latest solutions include:

• • Agentic AI platform: Dell is expanding our collaboration with Mistral AI to bring their language and reasoning models and orchestration tools to the Dell AI Factory. Mistral’s advanced capabilities can unlock richer data insights, integrate intelligent automation and streamline complex workflows.
  • Computer vision: Integrates new AI technologies such as vision language models (VLMs) and video search and summarization (VSS) to understand context, spot anomalies and summarize hours of video in seconds. This includes new solutions with Ipsotek and Fogsphere that enable advanced video analytics, security and operational optimization at scale.
  • Immersive AI: Delivers enhanced decision-making and self-service experiences by offering instant answers, personalized interactions and greater efficiency. Our solution with Uneeq transforms your organization’s data into interactive resources,
  • Code assistant: Deploys Poolside’s enterprise-grade AI coding platform which acts as a context-aware “AI pair programmer,” helping your developers generate, complete, debug, test and document code while preserving IP control.

Dell is also collaborating with JFrog to deliver a central hub for managing AI models and software artifacts at scale. Designed for organizations with the highest security, compliance and sovereignty requirements, the solution enables continuous, non-intrusive updates and modern software and AI delivery without compromising control or reliability.

Best of all, your organization can achieve value even faster with Dell’s expert services. These services provide end-to-end expertise to deploy, configure, integrate and optimize AI solutions to reach your goals quickly at scale.

Security, governance, and trust built in

As AI becomes more critical to operations, Dell is expanding the Dell AI Factory ecosystem with leading security providers to offer full AI lifecycle protection and confidentiality across AI infrastructure, data, models and applications.

• • CrowdStrike: Integrates AI detection and response capabilities to protect data, models and infrastructure from emerging threats.
  • Fortanix: Provides confidential computing and secure enclaves for AI workloads. This ensures your sensitive data remains protected even while in use, satisfying strict regulatory and compliance requirements.

From AI investment to AI impact

Organizations are shifting their focus from AI experimentation to outcomes. As a result, more leaders are demanding clear returns and faster deployments. The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA helps turn AI potential into tangible outcomes, offering a modular architecture that grows as business needs change. Automation, robust security and expert services remove complexity. When Dell’s AI solutions are included, organizations get end-to-end solutions that are validated and secure, so they can move from pilot to production with confidence.

To further accelerate innovation and business outcomes, the new Dell AI Ecosystem Program provides AI software and platform providers access to Dell labs, validation tools and reference architectures. This helps partners build and optimize their solutions on Dell and gives customers more trusted, validated options for their AI stack.

Opportunities to Learn More

• • Discover how the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA can bring innovation to life and accelerate your results.
  • Explore our blogs on AI Security and the AI Ecosystem Program for more details on these topics.
  • If you are attending Dell Technologies World, stop by the Dell booth in the Expo Hall to see these solutions in action and talk with experts!

¹ “1 week” refers to one work week (5 business days). Estimated average is based on end-to-end blueprint deployment time compared to manual deployment in a first-time deployment scenario, performed by users with no prior experience with the ISV solution. Based on Dell testing conducted in May 2026.  Actual results will vary by organization, configuration, customization requirements, and other factors.

² Based on internal analysis, October 2025.