Dell Technologies Expands Generative AI Capabilities at Dell Technologies World Conference
Dell Technologies is enhancing its generative AI offerings with a series of announcements made during the annual Dell Technologies World conference.
Introducing the Dell AI Factory
The Dell AI Factory represents a new strategy focused on simplifying, securing, and making AI adoption more cost-effective for enterprises. This initiative features an extensive collaboration with Nvidia, expanding on the solutions announced in July 2023. The partnership integrates Dell and Nvidia's hardware and software to support enterprises' generative AI initiatives, particularly in advanced Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and digital assistants. Additionally, Dell is launching new hardware optimized for the recently unveiled Nvidia Blackwell GPUs.
Strengthening Ties with Hugging Face and Meta
Dell is furthering its integration with Hugging Face, building on a collaboration initiated in November 2023 to enhance enterprise offerings. Similarly, Dell is continuing its partnership with Meta to support Llama 3, expanding beyond their previous work with Llama 2.
Streamlining On-Premises AI Implementation
Amid numerous cloud-based generative AI options, Dell aims to simplify assessments and implementations of generative AI technologies for enterprises on-premises. “Our goal is to help customers realize value from their AI workloads as quickly as possible,” said Varun Chhabra, Senior Vice President at Dell Technologies.
Advancements Beyond Project Helix
Dell's announcements at the conference mark a progression from last year's Project Helix initiative, which focused heavily on training. “When we launched Project Helix, it was very training-centric," stated Manuvir Das, VP of Enterprise Computing at Nvidia. "Now, we are prioritizing inference and practical model application."
Nvidia Inference Microservices
The newly introduced Nvidia Inference Microservices (NIMs) are a significant addition to the partnership. These microservices alleviate deployment challenges for developers by automatically configuring the environment for efficient and secure AI model execution. This enables developers to focus on application development without worrying about deployment intricacies.
Accelerating RAG Deployments
The generative AI landscape has evolved, particularly regarding how enterprises connect to their data. RAG has become essential for linking existing data stores to generative AI deployments. The new Dell Accelerator Services for RAG, specifically designed for Precision AI Workstations, aids developers in creating and testing RAG use cases using Dell hardware alongside the Nvidia AI workbench development platform.
Nvidia’s NeMo Retriever technology is part of this initiative, providing flexibility for organizations to select vector databases essential for RAG implementations.
Collaborating with Partners to Enhance Generative AI
Beyond Nvidia, Dell is actively collaborating with various partners to strengthen its generative AI capabilities. The company is expanding its partnership with Hugging Face to provide enterprise users with curated open models. The Dell Enterprise Hub aims to simplify the deployment of these models on-premises.
Dell continues to work with Meta to provide deployment guides and performance testing for the Llama 3 models. Additionally, a collaboration with Microsoft is advancing, offering Azure AI solutions on Dell infrastructure. The new Dell AI Solution for Microsoft Azure AI Services allows enterprises to utilize Microsoft Azure capabilities on-premises using the same APIs available in Azure.
“This flexibility enables organizations to integrate various Azure AI services—such as language processing, translation, speech recognition, document intelligence, and vision—closer to their data, which often resides on-premises,” noted Chhabra.
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