VMware is extensively leveraging AI and ML techniques in most of its products. We can see this with the new version of vSphere 6.7 features and also with products such as AppDefense and Workspace. This is one intelligence that will help in achieving the future vision of self-driving data centers. VMware has already done the performance benchmarking regarding how it can help its customers to run their own ML workloads on vSphere with improved support from NVIDIA GPUs.
ML is important for VMware mixed cloud vision, as ML has the ability to absorb a huge amount of data to utilize it for precise learning and with end users.