# CNCF Welcomes New Silver Members as Enterprises Scale AI From Training to Inference

DevFeed: [CNCF Welcomes New Silver Members as Enterprises Scale AI From Training to Inference](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/cncf-welcomes-new-silver-members-as-enterprises-scale-ai-from-training-to-inference-4597.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2026/09/07/cncf-welcomes-new-silver-members-as-enterprises-scale-ai-from-training-to-inference/>)

Author: Haley White

Published: 2026-09-08T01:58:47Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Cloud Native Computing Foundation](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/cloud-native-computing-foundation.md>)

Topics: [Cloud Native Ecosystem](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-native-ecosystem.md>), [Inference](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/inference.md>), [AI Platform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-platform.md>), [Optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/optimization.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-infrastructure.md>), [announcements](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announcements.md>), [cloud-native-ecosystem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-native-ecosystem.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/optimization.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [training](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/training.md>)

## AI overview

CNCF announces nine new Silver members as enterprises shift AI workloads from training to production inference. The announcement emphasizes cloud-native infrastructure, operational efficiency, data sovereignty, and resource optimization.

## Source excerpt

New members including SoftBank Corp. and Crusoe join the cloud native community to help build cost-efficient, sovereign infrastructure SHANGHAI, China - KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China 2026 - September 8, 2026...