Cloud computing company VMware announced that it will expand its strategic partnership with Nvidia. VMWare and Nvidia will cooperate to establish the VMware Private Artificial Intelligence Foundation to jointly develop a new set of software tools. , will provide enterprise customers with customized large-scale language models and run generative artificial intelligence applications to solve enterprise data privacy, security and control issues. The companies plan to launch the service in early 2024.
Through this partnership, the companies will introduce the VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA platform, which will enable enterprises to customize models and run generative AI applications such as intelligent chatbots, assistants, search and summarization tools, and more.
The VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA combines NVIDIA’s generative AI software and accelerated computing technologies. The platform is based on VMware Cloud Foundation and optimized for AI. The collaboration aims to address concerns about data privacy, security and control, while enabling enterprises to confidently run generative AI workloads adjacent to their data.
Enterprises across industries, including financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing, are eager to integrate generative AI into their businesses, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said in a press release. The expanded partnership with VMware will provide customers with the software and computing power necessary to leverage their own data to build custom applications that unleash the potential of generative AI.
The press release also said that enterprises are looking to simplify the development, testing and deployment of generative AI applications. The VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA aims to enable enterprises to harness this potential by customizing large language models, bringing more secure and private models, and safely running inference workloads at scale.
This cooperation is a continuation of more than ten years of cooperation between VMware and Nvidia. The news was also released when VMware was acquired by the US technology company Broadcom. , Approved the acquisition worth 69 billion US dollars.
