Dell disclosed at Dell Technologies World on May 18 that it has added 1,000 net-new enterprise customers for its AI Factory stack in a single quarter, bringing the total to 5,000. The platform, built in partnership with Nvidia, packages compute, storage, networking, and a reference architecture for enterprise model deployment. Newly named deployments include Eli Lilly, Honeywell, and Samsung, per Dell’s blog post on the announcement.
The number is a proxy for enterprise AI infrastructure spend that model-focused coverage tends to underweight. At an average deal size that Dell has historically benchmarked in the seven-figure range, 5,000 active customers represents a customer base whose annual compute spend is on the same order of magnitude as the consumer AI tools that draw most of the press attention.
For infrastructure-layer founders, the Dell customer roster operates as a buyer-signal map. Pharma (Lilly), industrial (Honeywell), and consumer electronics (Samsung) all show up in the same disclosed quarter. That spread suggests enterprise AI procurement is broadening across verticals rather than concentrating in tech and financial services.
Dell also used the conference to push enterprise AI security guidance, including specific defenses against prompt-injection attacks after recent reports of malicious websites poisoning AI agents through hidden instructions designed to exfiltrate sensitive data. Operators running multi-agent systems on top of AI Factory deployments should treat that guidance as a starting point rather than a complete control set.
Originally reported by Dell on May 18, 2026.
