# NVIDIA — As AI Increases Demands on Memory, Storage Steps Up

- Company: NVIDIA (nvidia.com)
- Announced: 2026-08-04T15:00:47+00:00
- Category: product-launch
- Subject: AI platform
- Models affected: NVIDIA Vera CPU, NVIDIA Vera BlueField-4 STX, NVIDIA STX, NVIDIA CMX Context Memory Storage
- Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-storage-fms/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/3498-as-ai-increases-demands-on-memory-storage-steps-up

NVIDIA announced open sourcing of cuFile APIs and the Storage-Next initiative to improve AI storage performance and security.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-storage-fms/:

> NVIDIA announced it is open sourcing its cuFile application programming interfaces (APIs) — and the vertical storage software stack underneath them — which let GPUs, not just CPUs, read from and write to storage directly.

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