Behnam Bastani, CEO of OpenInfer on Edge AI, Mementos Memory Tech and High-Performance Teams

In this episode of Software Leaders Uncensored, Steve Taplin talks with Behnam Bastani, CEO and co-founder of OpenInfer, and former AI executive at Meta, Roblox, Google, HP, and Kodak. Behnam breaks down why the future of AI will live at the edge—not the cloud—and how his team is building a fully integrated hardware–software ecosystem that delivers low-cost, private, on-device AI inference. He explains OpenInfer’s breakthrough “Mementos” technology that lets engineers move between Claude, Copilot, Gemini, and other tools without losing context or history. Behnam also discusses Bay Area culture, talent retention, global instability, hardware regulations, AI adoption failures, and why innovation requires embracing chaos instead of fearing it.