Oracle and NVIDIA Forge Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Enterprise AI Adoption

Oracle, Nvidia partner to add AI software into OCI services

The integration will provide developers and enterprises easier access to AI tools, better UI, support, and increased productivity, analysts say. Oracle and Nvidia are partnering to make the latter's AI Enterprise software stack available via Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services. Nvidia's AI Enterprise stack will be available natively through the OCI Console and will be available anywhere in OCI's distributed cloud while providing enterprises access to over 160 AI tools for training and inference, including NIM microservices, the companies said in a joint statement at Nvidia's annual GTC conference. The AI-focused software stack will enable enterprises to combine them with OCI services for building applications and managing data across deployments, they added.

Oracle Expands Distributed Cloud with NVIDIA AI Enterprise for Faster AI Deployment

This will help customers accelerate sovereign AI by enabling them to take advantage of industry-leading AI solutions that provide greater control over operations, location, and security. Oracle announced that NVIDIA AI Enterprise, an end-to-end, cloud-native software platform that accelerates data science and streamlines the development and deployment of production-ready AI, will be available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). To support sovereign AI, among other deployments, and provide customers with easy access to NVIDIA's accelerated, secure, and scalable platform, NVIDIA AI Enterprise will be available anywhere in OCI's distributed cloud, and customers will be able to purchase it with their existing Oracle Universal Credits.

Oracle Expands Distributed Cloud Capabilities with NVIDIA AI Enterprise

Customers will be able to accelerate sovereign AI and deploy AI solutions anywhere in OCI's distributed cloud Oracle today announced that NVIDIA AI Enterprise, an end-to-end, cloud-native software platform that accelerates data science and streamlines the development and deployment of production-ready AI, will be available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). To support sovereign AI, among other deployments, and provide customers with easy access to NVIDIA's accelerated, secure, and scalable platform, NVIDIA AI Enterprise will be available anywhere in OCI's distributed cloud, and customers will be able to purchase it with their existing Oracle Universal Credits. Unlike other NVIDIA AI Enterprise offerings through a marketplace, OCI will make it available natively through the OCI Console, reducing the time it takes to deploy the service and provide direct billing and customer support. Customers can quickly and easily access 160+ AI tools for training and inference, including NVIDIA NIM™ microservices, a set of optimized, cloud-native inference microservices designed to simplify the deployment of generative AI models. This end-to-end set of training and inference capabilities on OCI will enable customers to combine them with OCI services for building applications and managing data across a range of distributed cloud deployment options. "We want our customers to be able to develop and deploy their AI solutions on OCI in the quickest way possible," said Karan Batta, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. "With NVIDIA AI Enterprise on OCI, customers will be able to benefit from the latest AI infrastructure and software innovations while having the flexibility to leverage the wide array of deployment options provided by our distributed cloud. This will help customers accelerate sovereign AI by enabling them to take advantage of industry-leading AI solutions that provide greater control over operations, location, and security." "NVIDIA AI Enterprise provides the building blocks for developers creating modern AI applications," said Justin Boitano, vice president of Enterprise Software Products, NVIDIA. "Oracle's integration of NVIDIA AI Enterprise on the OCI Console will deliver a seamless experience to speed the development and deployment of generative, agentic, and physical AI across local regions." By delivering NVIDIA AI Enterprise through the OCI Console, Oracle will enable NVIDIA AI Enterprise to be quickly and easily deployed across OCI's public regions, Government Clouds, sovereign clouds, OCI Dedicated Region, Oracle Alloy, OCI Compute Cloud@Customer, and OCI Roving Edge Devices. The availability of NVIDIA AI Enterprise across OCI's distributed cloud will help customers meet security, sovereignty, regulatory, and compliance requirements when developing, deploying, and operating their enterprise AI stack. NVIDIA AI Enterprise will be available as a deployment image for GPU instances and Kubernetes clusters using OCI Kubernetes Engine. To further help customers accelerate their AI deployments, OCI AI Blueprints provide no-code deployment recipes that enable customers to quickly run AI workloads without having to make decisions about the software stack or manually provision the infrastructure. The blueprints help reduce GPU onboarding time for scaled deployments from weeks to minutes by offering clear hardware recommendations for NVIDIA GPUs, NIM microservices, and prepackaged observability tools. Expansive AI and Cloud Options Help Customers Accelerate Sovereign AI To address digital sovereignty requirements and accelerate the adoption of AI, many organizations are taking advantage of accelerated computing and AI from NVIDIA on OCI. Nomura Research Institute (NRI), a leading global provider of consulting services and system solutions, uses Oracle Alloy to help its customers move to the cloud faster and more securely. With Oracle Alloy, NRI can provide customers in Japan with new customized services and help them access the latest AI and cloud technologies in a sovereign environment. "We rely on Oracle Alloy in our Tokyo and Osaka datacenters to advance our multicloud strategy and help our customers drive innovation," said Shigekazu Ohmoto, senior corporate managing director, NRI. "To provide our customers with high-performance infrastructure within a dedicated cloud environment, we've deployed NVIDIA Hopper GPUs and plan to deploy NVIDIA AI Enterprise. This will help support our customers' enterprise AI use cases, including generative AI and large language model development, while adhering to stringent governance, security, and data sovereignty requirements." e& UAE, the flagship telecom arm of e&, serves more than 13 million customers and over 300,000 small and medium-sized businesses in the UAE. Deploying NVIDIA Hopper GPU clusters within its OCI Dedicated Region has helped e& UAE facilitate the localization and development of new generative AI services and applications for its customers. "At e& UAE, we are committed to pioneering AI-driven innovation while ensuring data sovereignty, security, and operational control," said Hazem Gebili, senior vice president, Enterprise Service Solutions, e& UAE. "The strategic collaboration with Oracle and NVIDIA enables us to accelerate our sovereign AI initiatives, empowering us to develop and deploy cutting-edge AI services tailored for government, enterprise, and smart city applications. By leveraging OCI Dedicated Region across our two UAE datacenters, we gain seamless access to over 150 on-premises cloud services, allowing us to modernize mission-critical operations and business support systems with AI-powered efficiencies. The integration of NVIDIA Hopper GPUs and NVIDIA AI Enterprise further strengthens our capabilities, enabling us to rapidly scale, innovate, and deliver next-generation generative AI solutions that redefine customer experiences and business transformation in the UAE." Zoom Communications, Inc., an AI-first work platform for human connection, is using OCI to support Zoom AI Companion in Saudi Arabia. OCI is helping Zoom keep customer data in-region and deliver AI-first solutions. To support compliance with Saudi Arabian regulations while maintaining top-tier performance, Zoom optimized its AI models to run on efficient OCI GPU shapes. "Saudi Arabia is a key market for Zoom, and we continue to invest in Zoom Workplace and AI Companion to provide solutions that meet the unique needs of businesses here," said Velchamy Sankarlingam, president of product and engineering, Zoom. "By optimizing AI Companion to operate efficiently with GPU shapes accelerated by NVIDIA in a local OCI region, we're enabling Saudi companies to take full advantage of AI without facing constraints." Additional Resources Learn more about Oracle's sovereign AI offerings Learn more about Oracle's distributed cloud strategy Learn more about how Oracle and NVIDIA are collaborating to help enterprises accelerate agentic AI inference Read more about how Oracle delivers sovereign AI anywhere with NVIDIA Read more about OCI AI Blueprints About Oracle Distributed Cloud Oracle's distributed cloud delivers the benefits of cloud with greater control and flexibility. Oracle's distributed cloud lineup includes: Public cloud: Hyperscale public cloud regions serve any size of organization, including those requiring strict EU sovereignty controls. See the full list of regions here. Dedicated cloud: Customers can run all OCI cloud services in their own data centers with OCI Dedicated Region, while partners can resell OCI cloud services and customize the experience using Oracle Alloy. Oracle also operates separate U.S., UK, and Australian Government Clouds, and Isolated Cloud Regions for national security purposes. Each of these products provides a full cloud and AI stack that customers can deploy as a Sovereign Cloud. Hybrid cloud: OCI delivers key cloud services on-premises via Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer and Compute Cloud@Customer and is already managing deployments in over 60 countries. Additionally, OCI Roving Edge Infrastructure, which consists of multiple configurations of ruggedized and portable high-performance devices, helps customers leverage remote AI inferencing at the edge. Multicloud: OCI is physically deployed within all the hyperscale cloud providers, including AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, providing low latency, natively integrated Oracle database services, including Oracle Database@AWS, Oracle Database@Azure, Oracle Database@Google Cloud, and Oracle HeatWave on AWS. Oracle Interconnect for Microsoft Azure and Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud allows customers to combine key capabilities from across clouds. About Oracle Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at www.oracle.com.

Oracle and NVIDIA Collaborate to Help Enterprises Accelerate Agentic AI Inference

Oracle Database and NVIDIA AI Integrations Make It Easier for Enterprises to Quickly and Easily Harness Agentic AI Oracle and NVIDIA today announced a first-of-its-kind integration between NVIDIA accelerated computing and inference software with Oracle's AI infrastructure and generative AI services to help organizations globally speed the creation of agentic AI applications. The new integration between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform will make 160+ AI tools and 100+ NVIDIA NIM™ microservices natively available through the OCI Console. In addition, Oracle and NVIDIA are collaborating on the no-code deployment of both Oracle and NVIDIA AI Blueprints and on accelerating AI vector search in Oracle Database 23ai with the NVIDIA cuVS library. "Oracle has become the platform of choice for both AI training and inferencing, and this partnership enhances our ability to help customers achieve greater innovation and business results," said Safra Catz, CEO, Oracle. "NVIDIA's offerings, paired with OCI's flexibility, scalability, performance, and security, will speed AI adoption and help customers get more value from their data." "Oracle and NVIDIA are perfect partners for the age of reasoning -- an AI and accelerated computing company working with a key player in processing much of the world's enterprise data," said Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO, NVIDIA. "Together, we help enterprises innovate with agentic AI to deliver amazing things for their customers and partners." Purpose-Built Solutions to Meet Enterprise AI Needs Reducing the time it takes to deploy reasoning models, NVIDIA AI Enterprise will be natively available through the OCI Console, enabling customers to quickly and easily access AI tools, including NVIDIA NIM™ - a set of 100+ optimized, cloud-native inference microservices for leading AI models, including the latest NVIDIA Llama Nemotron models for advanced AI reasoning. NVIDIA AI Enterprise will be available as a deployment image for OCI bare-metal instances and Kubernetes clusters using OCI Kubernetes Engine. OCI Console customers will benefit from direct billing and customer support through Oracle. Organizations can deploy OCI's 150+ AI and cloud services with NVIDIA accelerated computing and NVIDIA AI Enterprise in their data center, the public cloud, or at the edge. This offering provides an integrated AI stack to help address data privacy, sovereign AI, and low-latency requirements. Biotechnology company Soley Therapeutics is deploying OCI AI infrastructure, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, and NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to build its AI drug discovery platform to unlock new possibilities in treating complex diseases by capturing, decoding, and interpreting cellular language to forecast cell fate. "We believe in the potential of AI in developing new solutions that can help deliver treatments for cancer and other complex diseases," said Yerem Yeghiazarians, CEO and co-founder, Soley Therapeutics. "The combination of OCI and NVIDIA delivers a full-stack AI solution, providing us the storage, compute, software tools, and support necessary to innovate faster with petabytes of data in developing our AI drug discovery platform." AI Deployment at Scale with Tailored Blueprints OCI AI Blueprints provide no-code deployment recipes that enable customers to quickly run AI workloads without having to make decisions about the software stack or manually provision the infrastructure. The blueprints offer clear hardware recommendations for NVIDIA GPUs, NIM microservices, and prepackaged observability tools, helping enterprises accelerate their AI projects from weeks to minutes. In addition, NVIDIA Blueprints provide developers with a unified experience across the NVIDIA stack by providing reference workflows for enterprise AI use cases. Using NVIDIA Blueprints, organizations can build and operationalize custom AI applications with NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA Omniverse™ software, application programming interfaces, and microservices. For example, developers can begin with an NVIDIA AI Blueprint for a customer service AI assistant and customize it for their own use. To simplify the development, deployment, and scale-out of advanced physical AI and simulation applications and workflows, the NVIDIA Omniverse and NVIDIA Isaac Sim development workstations and Omniverse Kit App Streaming are expected to be available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Marketplace later this year, preconfigured with compute bare-metal instances accelerated by NVIDIA L40S GPUs. Pipefy, an AI-powered automation platform for business process management, uses an inference blueprint for document pre-processing and image processing. "We embraced OCI AI Blueprints to spin up GPU nodes and deploy multimodal LLMs quickly for document and image processing use cases," said Gabriel Custódio, principal software engineer, Pipefy. "Using these prepackaged and verified blueprints, deploying our AI models on OCI is now fully automated and significantly faster." Real-Time AI Inference with NVIDIA NIM in OCI Data Science To further accelerate enterprise AI adoption and help enable quick AI deployments with minimal setup, data scientists can access pre-optimized NVIDIA NIM microservices directly in OCI Data Science. This supports real-time AI inference use cases without the complexity of managing infrastructure. To help maintain data security and compliance, the models run in the customer's OCI tenancy. Customers can purchase the models through a flexible, pay-as-you-go, hourly pricing model or apply their Oracle Universal Credits. Organizations can use this integration to deploy inference endpoints with preconfigured, optimized NIM inference engines in minutes, rapidly accelerating time-to-value for use cases such as AI-powered assistants, real-time recommendation engines, and copilots. In addition, this allows customers to start using the integration for smaller workloads and seamlessly scale to enterprise-wide deployments. NVIDIA Accelerated Computing Platform Turbocharges AI Vector Search in Oracle Database 23ai Oracle and NVIDIA are working together to accelerate the creation of vector embeddings and vector indexes -- compute-intensive portions of AI Vector Search workloads in Oracle Database 23ai -- using NVIDIA GPUs and NVIDIA cuVS. Organizations can enable vector embedding through bulk vectorization of large volumes of input data such as text, images, and videos, as well as the fast creation and maintenance of vector indexes. With NVIDIA-accelerated AI Vector Search, Oracle Database customers can significantly improve the performance of their AI pipelines to help support high-volume AI vector workloads. DeweyVision provides advanced computer vision and artificial intelligence capabilities to turn media into data, making it accessible, searchable, discoverable, retrievable, and actionable. DeweyVision uses Oracle Database 23ai on Oracle Autonomous Database for its AI-powered, no-code warehousing tools. These tools enable production professionals to connect their workflows and edit video footage quickly by cataloging footage in minutes and providing intuitive search capabilities. "Oracle Database 23ai with AI Vector Search can significantly increase Dewey's search performance while increasing the scalability of the DeweyVision platform," said Majid Bemanian, CEO, DeweyVision. "Using NVIDIA GPUs to create the vector embeddings that we load into Oracle Database accelerates the speed at which we can ingest new data, while Autonomous Database and the converged capabilities of Oracle Database 23ai will help reduce our operational costs as we grow and open new opportunities. We believe that the combination of DeweyVision, Oracle Database 23ai, and NVIDIA GPUs running in OCI will help us achieve our goal of becoming Hollywood's data warehouse." NVIDIA Blackwell on OCI Enables AI Anywhere Oracle and NVIDIA continue to evolve AI infrastructure with new NVIDIA GPU types across OCI's public regions, Government Clouds, sovereign clouds, OCI Dedicated Region, Oracle Alloy, OCI Compute Cloud@Customer, and OCI Roving Edge Devices. This includes NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand cluster network environments, NVIDIA Spectrum™ Ethernet switches, and optimized NVIDIA NVLink™ and NVLink Switch functionality for some of the largest AI superclusters in the market. In addition, OCI will offer NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems on OCI Supercluster -- generally available soon with up to 131,072 NVIDIA GPUs -- and is taking orders for one of the largest AI supercomputers in the cloud with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs. OCI will be among the first cloud service providers to offer the next generation of the NVIDIA Blackwell accelerated computing platform. Built on the Blackwell architecture introduced a year ago, Blackwell Ultra includes the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 rack-scale solution and the NVIDIA HGX™ B300 NVL16 system. The GB300 NVL72 delivers 1.5x more AI performance than the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72. SoundHound AI, a global leader in voice artificial intelligence, powers hundreds of enterprise brands, thousands of restaurant and retail locations, and is deployed in millions of cars and devices. Its voice AI platform runs on OCI, processing billions of queries annually, and uses NVIDIA GPUs to provide customers with fast and accurate interactions. "SoundHound AI has developed a long-term relationship with OCI, and we believe our ongoing collaboration will play a key role in supporting future growth," said James Hom, chief product officer, SoundHound AI. "We're excited to take advantage of the various GPUs and use them to train our next generation of voice AI." About NVIDIA NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) is the world leader in accelerated computing. About Oracle Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at www.oracle.com.

Oracle and NVIDIA partner to boost enterprise AI By Investing.com

AUSTIN, Texas - Oracle and NVIDIA have announced a collaboration aimed at enhancing the development and deployment of agentic AI applications for enterprises. NVIDIA, currently valued at $2.82 trillion and maintaining a perfect Piotroski Score of 9 according to InvestingPro, brings its accelerated computing and inference software to integrate with Oracle's AI infrastructure and generative AI services. This partnership is designed to streamline the process for organizations looking to leverage AI technology. This partnership will make over 160 AI tools and more than 100 NVIDIA NIM microservices available through the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Console. For NVIDIA, which has demonstrated remarkable growth with a 114.2% revenue increase in the last twelve months, this collaboration represents another strategic move to maintain its industry leadership. The partnership includes a focus on no-code deployment of AI Blueprints from both companies and the acceleration of AI vector search in Oracle Database 23ai using NVIDIA's cuVS library. Safra Catz, CEO of Oracle, emphasized the importance of this partnership in enhancing Oracle's platform for AI training and inferencing. Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, also highlighted the synergy between the two companies in fostering enterprise innovation with agentic AI. The collaboration extends to various enterprise AI needs, such as reducing deployment time for reasoning models and providing an integrated AI stack for addressing data privacy and latency requirements. For instance, Soley Therapeutics is utilizing both companies' technologies to develop an AI drug discovery platform aimed at treating complex diseases. To support widespread AI deployment, OCI AI Blueprints offer no-code solutions, while NVIDIA Blueprints provide developers with reference workflows for enterprise AI use cases. Real-time AI inference is also being advanced through the integration of NVIDIA NIM microservices in OCI Data Science, facilitating quick AI deployments with minimal setup. Furthermore, Oracle and NVIDIA are enhancing AI vector search capabilities in Oracle Database 23ai, which is expected to improve performance for high-volume AI vector workloads significantly. DeweyVision, a company specializing in advanced computer vision and AI, is leveraging Oracle Database 23ai for its AI-powered, no-code warehousing tools. The partnership also includes the future availability of NVIDIA Blackwell on OCI, which will provide customers with access to a range of NVIDIA GPU types across various OCI services. SoundHound AI, a voice AI platform, is among the enterprises that will benefit from this collaboration, using NVIDIA GPUs to enhance its voice AI capabilities. As the integration progresses, customers can look forward to the availability of NVIDIA's latest accelerated computing platform, Blackwell Ultra, on OCI, which promises increased AI performance. This news is based on a press release statement and reflects the ongoing efforts by Oracle and NVIDIA to facilitate the adoption and advancement of AI technologies in enterprise settings. In other recent news, NVIDIA has been making significant strides across various sectors, with notable developments in artificial intelligence, weather forecasting, quantum research, and healthcare imaging. At the NVIDIA GTC global AI conference, NVIDIA and Alphabet Inc. expanded their AI collaboration, focusing on healthcare, manufacturing, and energy sectors. This includes Google Cloud's adoption of NVIDIA's GB300 NVL72 rack-scale solution to enhance AI research. NVIDIA also launched its Omniverse Blueprint for Earth-2, aimed at improving weather forecasting accuracy, with companies like G42 and Spire Global utilizing its AI components to augment their forecasting models. In quantum computing, NVIDIA is establishing a research center in Boston to advance quantum computing integration with AI supercomputers, collaborating with pioneers like Quantinuum and academic researchers from Harvard and MIT. The company has also partnered with GE HealthCare to enhance autonomous imaging technologies using the NVIDIA Isaac platform, focusing on X-ray and ultrasound systems. Moreover, NVIDIA's Blackwell platform has been integrated into leading CAE software, accelerating simulation tools by up to 50 times, benefiting industries such as automotive and aerospace. These advancements highlight NVIDIA's ongoing commitment to innovation and collaboration across multiple industries.