- “AI is the new electricity”, Michael Dell declares
- Opening Dell Technologies World 2025, he highlights importance of AI innovation
- “AI isnât your product, but AI can power your purpose” Dell says
The founder and CEO of Dell Technologies has urged businesses of all sizes to fully embrace the potential offered by AI in order to stay competitive and thrive ahead of the competition.
Delivering the opening keynote at Dell Technologies World 2025, Michael Dell warned how, “the real danger is staying still,â as he highlighted several ways AI can benefit firms.
“AI is the new electricity – and Dell is the grid powering this transformation,” he declared.
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Making AI easier
During the keynote, the founder guided us along âDell Technologies Wayâ, where the companyâs services and systems power a wide range of businesses, industries and individuals alike.
âOur street is alive with your energy, and yes – your creativity and your data,â he declared, âwhether youâre developing cancer treatments, or growing a business, data is at the center of everything, everywhere, all of the time.â
This included the companyâs âAI Factoryâ platform, which saw its second generation unveiled as part of a long-standing partnership with Nvidia.
âFor most of usâŚAI isnât your product, but AI can power your purpose,â Dell added, âyou donât need your own Colossus, but you do need AI, and weâre taking all the learnings from these massive systems to make AI easier for you.â
âFrom AI PCs to small, domain-specific models running on the edge to the planetary scale AI data centers, weâve got you covered.â
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Dell noted how over 75% of enterprise data will soon be created and processed at the edge – âand AI will follow the data – not the other way around.â
“The future of AI will be decentralized, low-latency and hyper-efficiency – and that’s why Dell is pioneering the edge AI revolution, bringing real-time intelligence to wherever the data lives.â
“Here at Dell, we love data,â he added, âwe store it, we protect it, we organize it, and we transform it into actions and insights that drive human progress – and turbocharged by AI, that engine of progress is going faster than ever before,” he added.
âThe pace of innovation is at Mach 3 – weâre creating the future.â

