Key Takeaways
- • Vista Equity Partners and Cambium Capital launched Vector Core Compute (VC2), which the companies describe as the world's first commercially available enterprise inference cloud, combining Intel Xeon CPUs, SambaNova SN40 RDUs, and NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in a disaggregated architecture.
- • VC2 is backed by a $3.5 billion compute commitment to SambaNova and launched live from a Los Angeles facility, with sites in development in Chicago, Seattle, and Phoenix and plans across 50+ U.S. metros.
- • Together AI is the first commercial customer, and Vista has secured early access for its 90+ portfolio companies, which serve more than 2.5 million enterprise customers and 750 million users worldwide.
- • The launch is positioned as a cost-reduction play for agentic AI inference, with Vista framing purpose-built inference infrastructure as a competitive enabler for enterprise software portfolio companies.
Summary
Vista Equity Partners and Cambium Capital launched Vector Core Compute (VC2) at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, according to a Business Wire release dated June 3, 2026. The companies describe VC2 as the world's first commercially available enterprise inference cloud for disaggregated inference, spanning technologies from SambaNova, Intel, and NVIDIA. VC2 is backed by a $3.5 billion compute commitment to SambaNova and support from Intel, and it launched live from its Los Angeles facility.
The platform splits agentic AI workloads across three processor types. Intel Xeon CPUs handle orchestration and execution, routing work across silicon in real time. SambaNova SN40 RDUs handle decode, which the release describes as fast token generation at scale. NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs handle prefill, the high-compute burst of processing incoming requests. The release characterizes VC2 as the first cloud infrastructure to bring these three processors together in production, though it does not provide independent performance benchmarks.
Rather than concentrating capacity in a few remote mega-sites, VC2 plans to distribute compute across the top 50 U.S. metropolitan markets. Additional sites are in development in Chicago, Seattle, and Phoenix, and the distributed model is designed to extend to strategic markets globally, with regions informed by partners and customer demand.
Together AI, which says it processes more than 400 trillion tokens per month, is the first commercial customer for VC2. Vista has secured early access to the platform for its more than 90 portfolio companies, which collectively serve over 2.5 million enterprise customers and 750 million users worldwide. Robert F. Smith, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Vista, said the constraint on agentic AI is increasingly access to economically viable infrastructure rather than models. Vista manages more than $110 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2025.
Executives quoted in the release include Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who called the demonstration a breakthrough for cost-efficient inference; SambaNova CEO Rodrigo Liang, who said VC2 is the largest commercial deployment of SambaNova technology in the company's history; Cambium Co-Founder and Managing Partner Landon Downs; and Together AI CEO Vipul Ved Prakash.
The platform splits agentic AI workloads across three processor types. Intel Xeon CPUs handle orchestration and execution, routing work across silicon in real time. SambaNova SN40 RDUs handle decode, which the release describes as fast token generation at scale. NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs handle prefill, the high-compute burst of processing incoming requests. The release characterizes VC2 as the first cloud infrastructure to bring these three processors together in production, though it does not provide independent performance benchmarks.
Rather than concentrating capacity in a few remote mega-sites, VC2 plans to distribute compute across the top 50 U.S. metropolitan markets. Additional sites are in development in Chicago, Seattle, and Phoenix, and the distributed model is designed to extend to strategic markets globally, with regions informed by partners and customer demand.
Together AI, which says it processes more than 400 trillion tokens per month, is the first commercial customer for VC2. Vista has secured early access to the platform for its more than 90 portfolio companies, which collectively serve over 2.5 million enterprise customers and 750 million users worldwide. Robert F. Smith, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Vista, said the constraint on agentic AI is increasingly access to economically viable infrastructure rather than models. Vista manages more than $110 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2025.
Executives quoted in the release include Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who called the demonstration a breakthrough for cost-efficient inference; SambaNova CEO Rodrigo Liang, who said VC2 is the largest commercial deployment of SambaNova technology in the company's history; Cambium Co-Founder and Managing Partner Landon Downs; and Together AI CEO Vipul Ved Prakash.
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