Why WebAssembly Belongs in AI Data Infrastructure | WebAssembly Unleashed

WebAssembly is usually framed as an application runtime story, but at AppWorld 2026 in Las Vegas, WebAssembly Unleashed shifts the spotlight to a more urgent frontier: data. As AI architectures get hungrier and more distributed, performance and security constraints are moving closer to the data store itself. In this episode, Joel Moses and co-host Oscar Spencer explore why WebAssembly components could become the connective tissue between data-intensive AI systems and the storage infrastructure that feeds them.
They’re joined by Ugur Tigli, CTO of MinIO, to break down how modern AI workloads…