Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is introducing the new OCI Generative AI service, now available in beta, helping customers automate, innovate, and build with a new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Through the partnership with Cohere, customers get access to powerful large language models (LLMs) from a cloud provider that has decades of experience handling critical data and delivering enterprise solutions at scale.

Industry analysts and customers alike are excited about OCI Generative AI’s focus on privacy and security, fine tuning, and dedicated AI hardware. They find Oracle’s approach even more compelling when combined with OCI’s powerful infrastructure, flexible deployment options, and comprehensive data platform. To learn more, read the press release

What industry experts are saying:

With the announcement of the new service, industry analysts have given the following comments:

 

Omdia

“Oracle’s approach to generative AI leads with the needs of the business-critical enterprise customer in mind, with a wide range of choices and options to consider, and an architecture that can be regarded as one of the fastest supercomputers on the planet. Whether it’s reserving your own dedicated AI cluster to optimize price/performance or fine-tuning models for specific business requirements, organizations can leverage Oracle’s Generative AI Service to effortlessly integrate generative AI into their existing workflows. And if Oracle’s history is anything to go on, the company will continue to invest in its generative AI platform and services, for example, bringing them to bear across its broad suite of SaaS applications, databases and industry solutions.”

–    Bradley Shimmin, chief analyst of AI & Analytics at Omdia

 

NAND Research

“What do you get when you start with the world’s fastest supercomputer, combine it with the company behind the world’s most popular enterprise database, and add the latest generative AI models from industry leader Cohere? The new OCI Generative AI Service. For enterprises interested in a carefully thought out approach to generative AI—with a service designed to provide a wide range of options from dedicated AI clusters, to fine-tuning models and even on-premises cloud deployments—the OCI Generative AI Service sets the stage for AI solutions that put the needs of the customer first.”

–    Steve McDowell, Principal Analyst and Founding Partner, NAND Research

 

Wikibon

“The OCI Generative AI service is the first generative AI cloud service to deliver enterprise-level security, flexibility, and user tuning that the market has been demanding. It provides tight security and governance of users’ proprietary data, and models that limit its use and visibility to only that customer. Just as importantly, customers can control their dedicated OCI Supercluster AI infrastructure to meet their specific cost and throughput requirements as they fine-tune their models or deploy their custom models. The OCI Generative AI service is a winning combination of enterprise capabilities and cost-performance.” 

–    Marc Staimer, senior analyst at Wikibon

 

Constellation Research

“CxOs need to ensure that the generative AI solutions that they select are truly enterprise-grade. With over 40 years of experience solving the world’s most critical enterprise business challenges, and an AI supercomputer at the heart of OCI, the OCI Generative AI Service is uniquely positioned for enterprise customers looking to adopt generative AI at scale. Plus, with the option of an architecturally identical AI solution on-premises with Dedicated Region, CxOs have the flexibility and choice of running their generative AI workloads wherever their business requires.”

–    Holger Mueller, vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research

 

The Futurum Group

“In an era where generative AI is at the forefront of every organization’s priorities, Oracle’s focus on the enterprise clearly sets it apart from a rather crowded field of emerging vendors. Oracle’s extreme focus on dedicated AI clusters, the ability to fine-tune the generative AI experience—with data encryption both at rest and in transit—provides customers with the right level of capabilities required to successfully adopt and leverage generative AI technologies across the enterprise. The OCI Generative AI Service marks a watershed moment in the evolution of enterprise AI.”

–    Ron Westfall, research director at The Futurum Group

 

Enterprise Strategy Group

“Enterprises looking to adopt generative AI solutions must partner with a company that actually understands the criticalities and intricacies of managing, protecting and processing enterprise data. With over 90% of the Fortune 100 running on Oracle Database, Oracle knows the enterprise better than anyone and those enterprises continue to trust Oracle to deliver innovation while satisfying infrastructure and data requirements. Enterprises should gain peace of mind knowing that the new OCI Generative AI Service is designed and architected by a company well known for dealing with critical data. And with the new service being able to deliver private custom models, reserved AI compute instances, and precise tuning characteristics, it’s a great fit for established corporations with a global footprint.”

–    Mike Leone, principal analyst at ESG

 

KuppingerCole Analysts

“By partnering with Cohere, Oracle is bringing sophisticated generative AI models to its enterprise customers worldwide. With the new OCI Generative AI Service, organizations benefit from the fact that all processing and data storage happens directly inside OCI data centers in compliance with data sovereignty requirements. There is also respect for privacy, as all customer-provided training and inference data is protected by a range of security controls and cannot be seen by other customers. For enterprises with business-critical data, these aspects are very important, as is the flexibility of reserving dedicated AI infrastructure, fine-tuning options, and choice of deployment—cloud or on-premises. It’s quite evident that for enterprise-minded executives, the new service is designed with their utmost priorities in mind.”
 
–    Alexei Balaganski, lead analyst and CTO at KuppingerCole Analysts

 

Conclusion


With the new limited availability program, you can add Cohere’s Command, Summarize, and Embed, models to your applications with APIs. Find out more about the new service in the technical blog or sign up for the beta.

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