The CEO of Allbirds’ new AI biz has a plan, but no employees
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Former AWS executive Nadia Carlsten has been named CEO of Smartbird, the AI infrastructure company formed after the pivot from the Allbirds shoe business.Summary
Following the transition of shoe retailer Allbirds into an AI infrastructure firm now called Smartbird, former AWS executive Nadia Carlsten has been appointed CEO. The company, which recently raised significant capital, aims to provide specialized AI compute services focused on data sovereignty and control rather than massive hyperscale operations. Although the company currently lacks a staff and faces competition from established players like Hewlett Packard and Equinix, Carlsten plans to recruit a leadership team and deploy compute clusters for clients by the end of the year.
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