VMware and NVIDIA Expand Partnership to Accelerate Generative AI Adoption

VMware and NVIDIA have expanded their strategic partnership to help enterprises adopt generative artificial intelligence (AI).

This collaboration aims to introduce the VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA, a platform that will enable enterprises to customize models and run generative AI applications such as intelligent chatbots, assistants, search and summarization tools, the companies said in a Tuesday (Aug. 22) press release.

The VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA combines generative AI software and accelerated computing from NVIDIA, according to the release. Built on VMware Cloud Foundation and optimized for AI, this partnership aims to address concerns related to data privacy, security and control while empowering enterprises to confidently run their generative AI workloads adjacent to their data.

Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of NVIDIA, said in the release that enterprises across various sectors, including financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing, are eager to integrate generative AI into their businesses. The expanded collaboration with VMware will provide customers with the necessary software and computing capabilities to unlock the potential of generative AI using custom applications built with their own data.

Businesses are seeking streamlined development, testing, and deployment of generative AI applications, according to the press release. The VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA aims to enable enterprises to harness this potential by customizing large language models, producing more secure and private models, and securely running inference workloads at scale.

This partnership builds upon the decade-long collaboration between VMware and NVIDIA, per the release. The VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA is set to be released in early 2024.

This announcement comes at a time when VMware is being acquired by U.S. tech company Broadcom. The United Kingdom’s competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), announced on Monday (Aug. 21) that it has approved the $69 billion acquisition after conducting an investigation.

It also comes about two months after NVIDIA partnered with SoftBank to build data centers that can host generative AI and wireless 5G applications alike on a multitenant common server platform. This platform will be designed to reduce costs and be more energy efficient.