VMware enters private AI collaboration with Intel

VMware (VMW) announced a collaboration with Intel (INTC) to extend the companies’ more than two decades of innovation to help customers accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence, or AI, and enable private AI everywhere, across data centers, public clouds, and edge environments. VMware and Intel are working to deliver a jointly validated AI stack that will enable customers to use their existing general-purpose VMware and Intel infrastructure and open source software to simplify building and deploying AI models. The combination of VMware Cloud Foundation and Intel’s AI software suite, Intel Xeon processors with built-in AI accelerators, and Intel Max Series GPUs, will deliver a validated and benchmarked AI stack for data preparation, model training, fine-tuning and inferencing to accelerate scientific discovery and enrich business and consumer services.