Businesses Aim to Leverage AI with VMware and Nvidia Solutions
In collaboration with Nvidia Corp, VMware Inc announced on Tuesday the creation of a fresh range of software tools. These tools are specifically designed for enterprises seeking to build generative artificial intelligence within their own data centers, as opposed to relying on cloud services.
VMware, which chip company Broadcom Inc is close to acquiring in a $69 billion deal, makes software that companies use to run privately owned data centers. For more than two decades, companies have used VMware tools to distribute computing power across the CPU chips that are the brains of traditional servers.
On Tuesday, the company released new tools designed to control the Nvidia chips that dominate the market for AI systems that can read and write text in human-like ways. For example, companies such as Microsoft Corp offer cloud-based systems that can read a business team’s emails and chats and help create a brief update on the team’s progress.
Raghu Raghuram, CEO of VMware, told Reuters that companies are interested in the technology in everything from helping software developers write code faster to writing legal contracts. But some VMware customers prefer to do this work in their own data centers when the data is sensitive.
“Imagine a common use case: I want it to read all my legal contracts so I can create new contracts faster. Obviously, it’s going to be very secretive — you don’t want the data to escape anywhere,” Raghuram said.
VMware said the new tools will be available next year. The company declined to say how it will be priced, except that the cost is based on how many Nvidia chips a customer uses to run the software.
