Broadcom expands support for UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab

Following VMware’s long-standing sponsorship, Broadcom is deepening its collaboration with UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab through a $4 million gift. This expanded collaboration reinforces a shared commitment to innovation and interoperability, building on both organizations’ histories of addressing complex industry challenges through cutting-edge research.

The Sky Computing Lab, and its predecessors, are known for incubating groundbreaking technologies such as Apache Spark, Ray, vLLM, and Chatbot Arena—pillars of today’s generative AI ecosystem. Broadcom is particularly enthusiastic about the lab’s newest effort: the Sky AI Software Infrastructure (SAISI). This initiative aims to develop an open-source software stack that enables seamless interoperability across diverse AI hardware accelerators.

“VMware has been one of our most reliable collaborators over the past decade, and we’re excited to see that relationship continue and grow following its acquisition by Broadcom,” said Ion Stoica, director of the Sky Computing Lab. “We look forward to working with Broadcom engineers to build an open-source AI stack that powers the next generation of applications and services by efficiently leveraging the rapidly expanding landscape of hardware and networking technologies.”