A fantastic evening co-hosting the first UK edition of the @vllm_project and llm-d inference meetup alongside @RedHat and @nvidia on Wednesday. Bringing together the engineers and practitioners building and scaling inference in production for an evening of technical sessions and community conversation around the infrastructure driving real-world AI workloads. Our CTO David Hughes' session took the audience through the journey of building a managed vLLM service internally – from early evaluation through to considerations that emerge at production scale. He was joined by fellow speakers covering everything from the latest vLLM updates and speculative decoding to model weight delivery and AI safety at scale. As ever, it was great to contribute back to the open-source community that underpins so much of what we build. We'll be sharing more from Dave's session and the event very soon – stay tuned. #vLLM #AIinfrastructure #AIcommunity #opensource

We're excited to announce a major AI initiative with @ReadingFC , leveraging Stelia's full-stack platform and powered by @nvidia and @Lenovo . This will focus on the co-development of a Reading Football Club AI Centre of Excellence. The centre is designed to identify, develop and share best practice in applying AI and accelerating computing across football operations, performance analysis, fan engagement and commercial innovation. As part of this, Reading will use Stelia's full-stack platform to develop, test and deploy AI applications, leveraging accelerated compute infrastructure from NVIDIA and Lenovo. Together we aim to establish a scalable model for deploying AI responsibly across sport and enterprise. The Centre will also support skills development, education and innovation across the wider Thames Valley which we look forward to sharing more on soon! Read more here: newsroom.stelia.ai/reading-f… News unveiled by NVIDIA at @LDNTechWeek.

We have some exciting announcements to share at @Cannes_Lions this year. We are looking forward to seeing customers, partners, and friends for what is a jam-packed agenda. As part of this line-up, Paul Heathcote, Stelia's VP of Applied AI, will be speaking on a panel at @madebymonks_ ' Les Monks Café on Tuesday 23rd June, where he'll be sharing insight into building agents to support marketing operations at scale. More details to follow soon! In the meantime, if you'll be in Cannes and want to meet the Stelia team there, book a time here: platform.stelia.ai/canneslio… #Martech #AIagents #MediaAI #CannesLions2026

We're pleased to share that Ula Nairne, Stelia VP of Media and Entertainment, will be joining a panel at Hamptons Tech Week alongside @ElfriedSamba, CEO and Co-founder of Butterfly Effect and Helena Wasserman, Founder of Unstoppable Media House & Investors for Climate. They will be speaking on where smart capital is moving now, from media to distribution to data. The conversation sits at the centre of a shift that is already reshaping where value gets created across media and entertainment. The businesses that understood early that data and distribution were compounding assets are now pulling ahead - and the question for leaders today is whether AI accelerates that advantage or redistributes it entirely. Speaking alongside leaders from companies including @Patreon, @WME and @Microsoft, we are excited to be part of the conversation. Explore why proprietary data is becoming the defining asset for enterprises creating impact with AI: newsroom.stelia.ai/why-enter… #HTW #AIecosystem

In the fast-paced world of AI infrastructure, there is a natural gravitation toward tools that offer instant gratification. But while reaching a working prototype quickly may feel like progress, architecting modern AI systems at scale fundamentally changes the definition of success. And while the pressure to take shortcuts is significant, the consequences of doing so rarely surface immediately – they grow quietly until the foundation itself cannot scale with the demands of production. The decisions that protect organisations from that exposure are rarely the easiest to make at the outset, and almost always require a deliberate choice to invest in long-term durability over short-term convenience. Cao Hoang, our VP of Platform Engineering, explores why @Ceph – one of several considered architectural choices underpinning Stelia's storage infrastructure – reflects exactly that kind of thinking. Read the full piece to understand what it takes to build dependable foundations for production-grade AI: newsroom.stelia.ai/why-we-ch… #AIinfrastructure #AIsystem #AIstorage

Making real impact with AI today starts with choosing the right model for the task at hand, across different providers, capabilities, and cost profiles. Without a model gateway, that's harder than it should be. It means bespoke integrations for every model, duplicated security and access logic, no unified visibility into usage or spend, and brittle infrastructure every time a model changes. Stelia AI OS was built with the realities of production-grade AI in mind, and dynamic model routing is just one of the platform's foundational capabilities. A single, governed access layer that intelligently routes each workload to the right model for the task, and lets you switch, scale, and govern without rebuilding underneath. For businesses, this results in highly performant, cost-efficient AI systems, precisely matched to the demands of each task, at every scale. Discover more of the key capabilities of Stelia AI OS here: newsroom.stelia.ai/introduci… #AIsystems #efficientAI #productionAI #modelgateway #modelrouting

Next month, Stelia CTO, David Hughes, will be speaking on @Voxel51's AI, ML, and Computer Vision virtual meetup. Sharing his “tales from the engine room”, Dave will be bringing practical insights from operating AI systems at scale. He will discuss the realities of data movement and hardware constraints, and how systems thinking is essential for building high-performance, secure and responsible AI infrastructure. The virtual meetup will also feature speakers such as Burhan Qaddoumi, Tooba Imtiaz and Ajay Sharma, all speaking on the cutting edge of AI in practice. Thank you Jimmy Guerrero for organising and hosting such a well-rounded meetup. Sign up here to join the Zoom meetup: voxel51.com/events/ai-ml-and… #Voxel51 #AIecosystem #AIcommunity

We’re pleased to be hosting the @vllm_project and @_llm_d_ meetup alongside @RedHat and @nvidia next month. David Hughes, Stelia CTO, will be speaking on building a managed vLLM service with llm-d – from evaluation all the way to production. He will be joined by fellow speakers including Michael Goin, Eldar Kurtić, Ganesh K. and Stuart Battersby, all focusing on the architecture, optimisations and engineering required to run inference at scale. As more teams move AI workloads into production, conversations around reliable inference infrastructure are becoming increasingly important - and it's exactly this foundation that underpins our recently launched Stelia AI OS platform. Looking forward to connecting with the AI ecosystem in June. The meetup will take place at Sustainable Ventures in County Hall, we’d love to see you there: luma.com/iuecyow4?tk=sExemH Thank you to Saša Zelenović and his team for organising. Read more about Stelia AI OS here: newsroom.stelia.ai/introduci… #vLLM #AIecosystem #AIcommunity

We are proud to be recognised in the inaugural @Barclays AI:100 Ones to Watch – named among the most innovative and high-growth AI companies in the UK. This is a milestone that reflects the work we've been doing to bring production-grade AI capabilities to some of the world's most demanding environments – and the ecosystem we've built to make that possible. With our recent launch of Stelia AI OS, we are more excited than ever about the impact we can make – helping enterprises bring AI capabilities to market faster, at lower cost, and with the governance and trust that production-scale AI demands. The AI:100 programme brings together founders, investors, and ecosystem partners focused on scaling AI in the UK. We're looking forward to being part of that community, and to the conversations and collaborations that follow. Find out more about the work behind this milestone here: newsroom.stelia.ai/stelia-na… Congratulations to all the companies recognised alongside us, including @synthesiaIO, @ElevenLabs, @wayve_ai, and @polyaivoice #AIecosystem #UKTech #UKAI #AIinnovation #AIcommunity

6 weeks until @Cannes_Lions. We'll be there, will you? Cannes is where the boldest ideas in media and advertising come together. We'll be there showcasing how forward-thinking organisations are turning ambitious thinking into outcomes with production-grade AI. Not prototypes, but reliable, governable, and cost-effective AI that can be operationalised at scale. Our recently launched Stelia AI OS is providing a significant opportunity for organisations: faster time to market, new revenue streams, and a competitive edge that compounds with every campaign cycle. All built on proprietary data that never leaves your environment. If you're a business leader at Cannes thinking about how AI translates into revenue, efficiency, and advantage, we'd love to meet with you. Set up a meeting here with our VP of Media and Entertainment Ula Nairne and VP Applied AI Paul Heathcote: platform.stelia.ai/canneslio… Read more about the type of outcomes being delivered on the Stelia OS Platform here: newsroom.stelia.ai/introduci… Looking forward to joining discussions with fellow innovators, including companies such as @GoogleDeepMind, @OpenAI, @madebymonks_ alongside brilliant speakers like Adam Mosseri from @Meta, David Sandstrom from @Klarna and Grace Kao from @Snap Inc. Watch this space for some exciting project news with a major media company coming soon. #CannesLions2026 #FutureOfMedia #MediaAI

Most enterprise AI stacks are being built around a flawed assumption: that a single agent, given enough context, can reliably orchestrate and execute complex workflows at scale. But in reality, that context has limits, errors can quickly multiply, and the consequences of each mistake grow with the complexity of the task. Stelia AI OS was built on a different principle: that the most effective AI systems aren't built around broad agents – they're the ones that use AI purposefully, at the task level, within well-governed workflows. The result is enterprise-grade AI that delivers genuine business value in production settings – governed, observable, and significantly more cost-efficient than the single agent alternative. Our VP of Software Engineering, James Dobson makes the case for why it's time to rethink what we mean by agentic AI in his latest piece: newsroom.stelia.ai/its-time-… Learn more about how Stelia AI OS puts these principles into practice: newsroom.stelia.ai/introduci… #AIagents #AgenticAI #EnterpriseAI

Today we are proud to launch Stelia AI OS: the full-stack operating system for enterprise AI. Our team has experienced first-hand the challenges of getting AI into production at scale for some of the world's most complex organisations. Fragmented tooling, costly integration, and governance that's nearly impossible to maintain end-to-end. That's why Stelia AI OS was built. It's not another orchestration layer or model gateway. It replaces the need to assemble and maintain an entire AI stack in the first place. It enables you to move at commercial speed, scale to enterprise demand, and deploy the latest innovations safely, compliantly, and cost-effectively while staying under your control. The result: ▶️ 5x faster speed to market. ▶️ 50% reduction in LLM costs. ▶️ 3x engineer productivity. ▶️ An architecture that’s built to evolve with the pace of AI. ▶️ High quality business outcomes, new revenue streams, diversified products. One platform, multiple capabilities at your disposal, such as: ▶️ One interface to access all models: switch providers, upgrade models, select regions without touching code. ▶️ Create complex agent workflows, run them on any model instantly. ▶️ Set the guardrails you need. Model agnostic, out-of-the-box. ▶️ Track token usage, latency, performance, live in one dashboard. ▶️ Create a native knowledge graph, build institutional memory. ▶️ Fine tune LLMs, image and video generation models on your proprietary data – no deep data science expertise required. And much more. With no vendor lock-in Most importantly, we’re running Stelia AI OS internally to power real systems that need enterprise-grade reliability, quality, and trust. More on how Stelia AI OS can accelerate your speed to market here: newsroom.stelia.ai/introduci… Speak to the team or request a demo: aios.stelia.ai/form

Stelia’s Chief Legal Officer, Imogen Armstrong, will be speaking at @GetJuro's Scaleup GC: The Operator Era next week at County Hall, London. Imogen will be joining Tom Draper from Coalition Inc., Kit Lewin from Capsule Insurance, and Laura Brodahl from @wilsonsonsini on a panel discussing, Cyber Attack: What Investors and Boards Demand from the General Counsel. When a breach hits, the GC becomes the focal point - fielding pressure from all sides. With cyber claims against European scaleups on the rise, this session will bring together in-house counsel, external counsel, and insurance experts to share the "war room" strategies you need to protect your company's reputation and capital. This event will also feature brilliant speakers such as @maryshenocarro1 , former president of CLOC, Elena Leichty, Ethan Forrest, Ronan Davy and Broc Cocoman all from @AnthropicAI, Emily Turner, CEO of @HSBCInnovation Banking UK and Antti Innanen, author of ‘Prompted’. Thank you Richard Mabey and the Juro team for organising such a great event. For more information, see here: juro.com/scaleup-26 #ScaleupGC #CyberSecurity #LegalLeadership

Introducing AI, Stacked: a new monthly brief connecting what’s working today with where the future is being built. From practical insights for engineering teams, to strategic perspectives for business leaders, we’ll cover what’s moving at the frontier, why it matters, and what most people are missing when it comes to building production-grade AI for durable business advantage. Written by Stelia’s full-stack AI team, this is grounded in real-world delivery: from infrastructure to agents, through to measurable business outcomes, across some of the most demanding production environments. We’ll be focusing on areas such as: ▶️ How to design AI systems that scale reliably in production, from the ground up ▶️ Case studies of how agent workflows are reshaping enterprise operations across industries — from advertising and media, to retail, space, and more ▶️ The governance standards that will define who survives the coming wave of AI accountability ▶️ The latest developments in the ecosystem - and what they mean in practice, beyond the hype Sign up here to get this delivered straight to your inbox: mailchi.mp/stelia/newsroom?E…

We are pleased to be joining our partners @nvidia and @Lenovo next week for a special event bringing our AI ecosystem together. This forms part of a number of exciting projects we currently have underway. The event will be taking place at the De Vere Wokefield Estate, with the Stelia team stationed at the 12th hole for our PAR 3 challenge, where we have a few surprises up our sleeves. Keep an eye out for the Stelia buggy and be sure to grab some of our custom golf balls! We look forward to welcoming teams from @nvidia | @Lenovo | @ReadingFC | @RFCCommunity | @Computacenter | @BellIntegration | @Econocom_UK | @VAST_Data | @Scenegraph_UK | @QAOps | @devereofficial | @NHSuk | @nscale | @SkyUK | XSAIA | @IWFhotline | @wwt_inc And all for a great cause with the Berkshire Animal Connection Centre. We look forward to seeing you there.

Not long until Stelia CTO David Hughes speaks at @Leaseweb's Berlin Tech Meetup, tackling a question many CTOs find themselves asking: Do we really need all these GPUs? The short answer: it depends. Certain use cases absolutely demand GPU-heavy setups. But too often, organisations jump to maximum capacity without understanding what their application actually requires, resulting in significant overprovisioning and avoidable cost. Dave will dive into the approaches organisations can take to effectively run their AI workloads across distributed compute, and when high-cost GPU clusters aren’t necessarily needed. We're excited to be joining a fantastic lineup, including Ömer KARABACAK from Youzu and Felix Meyer from @cloudeteer, with @ArthurPoot from AI Builders moderating, bringing together valuable perspectives on what it takes to build resilient AI infrastructure at scale. A big thank you to the Leaseweb team for organising and continuing to support the Berlin AI community. Secure your spot here before it’s fully booked: luma.com/klg1zbe2 Ahead of his session, check out Dave’s recent piece on how different workloads demand entirely different infrastructure strategies and how to avoid over investment by understanding behaviour first: lnkd.in/e3rYQ8PA #Leaseweb #AIInfrastructure #AICommunity

Most cloud providers over-provision hardware. Your 20 vCPUs are actually oversubscribed with a dozen other tenants. At Stelia, we decided that wasn't good enough for AI infrastructure. When you're running a large model inference workload, the difference between a CPU that's truly yours and one that's being time-shared can be a 15–30% performance gap — sometimes more. That's the difference between a product that feels responsive and one that doesn't. We built our compute instances to avoid this entirely. It's a lot of complex plumbing, but the outcome is simple: when you get 20 vCPUs from us, they're genuinely yours. As a company, we never opt for the easiest and fastest route. We invest in complex engineering to ensure our technology is future-proofed, flexible, and highly performant for our customers in what is an incredibly fast-moving landscape. In our latest technical piece, Senior Platform Engineer Peter Bangert talks through the hands-on implementation — from configuring @kubernetesio Topology Manager to building a custom cgroup controller that pins vCPU threads and enforces NUMA-aware scheduling. Read it here: dev.to/steliadevs/no-more-cp… #NUMA #CPUs #AIinfrastructure #cloudcompute

Following our recent collaboration with @nokia, Stelia’s Lukas Stockner has been invited to speak at Nokia Wavelengths in Madrid next week. Our Principal Platform Engineer will join Alberto Carrasco Colomer from Telefonica and Aleksandar Ristovski from @exainfra for the “Advancing Connectivity” roundtable, moderated by @DoironTim from Nokia, bringing together perspectives from across telecoms and infrastructure. The session will be an open discussion, exploring both how networks need to evolve to support AI-driven workloads, and how AI itself can be applied to optimise and operate those networks. With AI placing new demands on infrastructure, we look forward to being part of the conversation that will focus on what it takes to build resilient, scalable networks ready for the next generation of compute. Thank you to Anthony I'Anson, Hélène Zalkind, Gillian Hanna, @jonasvermeulen and @RolandT for organising such an interesting event. Read more about our collaboration with Nokia here: newsroom.stelia.ai/stelia-an… See the full agenda for Nokia Wavelengths EMEA-LAT here: nokia.com/events/wavelengths… #Nokia #AIInfrastructure #Connectivity

At Stelia, we pride ourselves in having an engineering toolkit that spans some of the most advanced languages, frameworks and capabilities. Of these, systems programming language Rust has earned a specific place in our system design for its reliability, precision, and stability at scale. Gary Tierney, a key member of our engineering team, has unpacked what Rust is; why we use it to enable robust, production-scale system design; and equally where a different approach is simply the better fit. Read the full blog here: newsroom.stelia.ai/what-rust… #AIdevelopment #AIinfrastructure #AIarchitecture #Rust #ProgrammingLanguage