Allbirds is now Smartbird. The company has a new president and CEO, Nadia Carlsten. Smartbird is shifting focus to AI infrastructure and cloud computing. This move follows a significant surge in its share price. The company aims to provide AI infrastructure as a managed service. It is in discussions with potential customers and planning its first deployments.

The former sneaker company also said it hired a new CEO in its continued hard pivot into becoming an AI infrastructure provider.

Allbirds drops shoes to become Smartbird, an AI infrastructure startup. CEO Nadia Carlsten, fresh off building an NVIDIA-powered supercomputer, targets the mid-market.