VMware Announces Intelligent Assist at VMware Explore 2023 Las Vegas
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“ Really , what we ’ ve learned is that organisations are still figuring it out . They ’ re still experimenting and so using public cloud services is great , but then also they want other options and choices . That ’ s where a lot of the open source models come in and that ’ s where they can run on-prem .
“ From a VMware perspective , we have our ethical AI approach where things like explainability and openness is important , so partnering with organisations like Hugging Face , which is an organisation that offers services that align with our values .
“ Because of the speed the industry is moving , having partnerships like Hugging Face and Anyscale Ray , and of course Nvidia , across those various parts of the ecosystem is very important , through ML ops down to hardware .”
Q . HOW DO YOU WORK WITH PARTNERS AT VMWARE ?
» “ We ’ ve partnered with Nvidia for as long as I ’ ve been here , probably longer . The original use cases were around virtual desktops and people doing CAD drawings and high graphical intensive use cases , so making sure we can support dGPUs for virtual desktops . “ That naturally evolved into ML workloads , and we have hundreds of customers that do ML on VMware today because we ’ ve always partnered with Nvidia . Making sure that we support the hardware is one aspect , but now making sure that our platform of Cloud Foundation can integrate Nvidia AI enterprise at the higher level services that we don ’ t provide .
“ That ’ s why we have partnerships with Nvidia , Hugging Face , Anyscale and
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