Supply is rushing in. The part that matters is still thin. Outside Moscone during Databricks Data + AI Summit, San Francisco, June 2026. The robots really are already here. I just got back from ten days in San Francisco, using Databricks Data + AI Summit as a base and working outward from there: robotics teams, frontier labs, voice companies, data infrastructure players, and the people building the data layer underneath all of it. A day down in Mountain View. A lot of side ev

20+ Suppliers contacted across global markets 2 weeks Full sourcing assessment with confirmed supply path vs. a quarter of internal effort 45 languages All priority languages covered within budget, technical requirements confirmed THE CHALLENGE A well-funded voice AI company building and improving ASR and TTS models needed proprietary low-resource language audio and transcript data at scale. Their data acquisition team had an active requirement across 45+ priority languages,