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Unlocking Real-Time AI: A Conversation with Nectar Edge CEO Alex Smith

In the final episode of Season 2 - and our last episode of 2025 - Innovation Unplugged sits down with Alex Smith, co-founder and CEO of Nectar Edge. Nectar is reshaping how the world thinks about distributed infrastructure by turning everyday locations into high-performance, secure, real-time compute environments. Jim and Alex dig into the origins of Nectar, why traditional edge efforts have stumbled, and how AI’s explosive growth has created a once-in-a-generation opportunity for telcos, towercos, and enterprises. From immersion-cooled edge hardware to a new orchestration “brain” capable of sub-20ms AI inference, Alex breaks down the technical, economic, and market forces driving the shift from centralized cloud to decentralized intelligence. They explore everything from backhaul economics and latency-critical safety applications, to telco monetization models, to the future of real-time generative ads and next-wave AI services. If you want to understand what the next decade of AI infrastructure will look like - and why it must live at the edge - this is the episode you don’t want to miss.