Backblaze, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLZE) will present its AI storage platform at Ai4 2026, one of North America's largest applied artificial intelligence conferences, held from August 4 through August 6 at The Venetian Las Vegas. The company is participating as a Platinum sponsor.

During market hours, BLZE stock traded at $14.97, up 9.12%.

Ai4 2026 Conference Overview

Ai4 2026 is expected to draw nearly 12,000 attendees focused on applied AI. The conference program spans generative AI, agentic AI, AI infrastructure, physical AI, and world models.

Backblaze will exhibit at Booth 1248 throughout the three-day event, demonstrating how its object storage platform handles large-scale AI workloads. The demonstrations will illustrate how high-throughput storage keeps GPUs continuously supplied with data, addressing a well-documented bottleneck in AI training and inference pipelines where compute resources often idle while waiting on data delivery. The company plans to engage with technology providers and enterprise customers while highlighting storage performance across both cloud and on-premises environments.

B2 Overdrive and Partner Ecosystem on Display

Backblaze will feature its Powered by Backblaze program, which enables technology companies to integrate B2 Cloud Storage directly into their own platforms. Partners can deliver enterprise-grade storage without building or maintaining their own infrastructure. The program includes account management, reporting, and customer billing functionality through the Backblaze Partner API, allowing software providers and cloud companies to offer branded storage services and scale operations more efficiently.

The company will also demonstrate B2 Overdrive, a platform designed for multi-petabyte datasets and demanding AI workloads. B2 Overdrive delivers throughput of up to one terabit per second with predictable monthly pricing. Backblaze launched the platform less than six months before it received recognition in the 2025 TechForward Awards. B2 Overdrive complements Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage by providing always-hot, S3-compatible object storage, positioning Backblaze alongside major hyperscaler offerings such as Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage in the competitive object storage market.

Several organizations are already using these services for production AI workloads. Backblaze identified CoreWeave, Mirage, Decart, and Segmed among customers leveraging B2 Cloud Storage for AI applications that require reliable and scalable object storage.

Technical Session Led by Applied AI Director

Jeronimo De Leon, Backblaze's Director of Applied AI, will lead a technical session at Ai4 2026 focused on storage, provenance, and pipelines for generative AI media workloads. The presentation will examine how organizations manage data across multiple infrastructure environments, including movement between cloud platforms, GPU resources, and on-premises systems.

De Leon's session will also address how evolving AI models influence storage strategies, helping organizations understand long-term infrastructure planning. According to Backblaze, storage architecture has become increasingly important for evolving AI workflows. The presentation will cover operational costs, data movement across large deployments, and practical approaches used in modern AI pipelines.

In addition to the technical program, Backblaze will sponsor the Women in AI Reception on August 4, prior to the speaking session. Attendees can schedule meetings with the Backblaze team throughout the event.

Company Background

Backblaze has developed cloud storage technologies for more than two decades and currently serves over 500,000 customers across 175 countries. Its platform supports businesses managing large volumes of data, powering AI and other data-intensive applications.