Time to First Token (TTFT) has quietly become the metric the next decade of AI infrastructure will be measured against. It shows how each part of the stack is reliant on infrastructure to deliver a single number that all will be benchmarked against. The companies designing it together are rewriting what “good infrastructure” means.

This session brings together Nscale, NVIDIA, and VAST Data — three companies that collectively own the compute, data, and deployment layers of modern AI infrastructure, to unpack why TTFT has become the axis on which AI performance, economics, and user trust all rotate.